LiveCycle ES2.5 to ES4 Upgrade - New servers

Greetings!
My organization is going to embark on and upgrade from ES2.5 to ES4. The upgrade we are going to perform is the ES4 upgrade that comes with a maintenance agreement.
We are going to add new servers and basically start over.
I have been searching for documentation on how to do this upgrade. I need verification of the process. What I am seeing is that we need to load ES2.5 on the new servers and then apply the ES4 upgrade to ES2.5. Is this correct?

nobody had such an issue during upgradeprocess?
i'm a little bit confused because i replaced all .jars and went through the upgradeguide again and again without any success so far.
maybe it's just a tiny bit of nothing.

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