1.7.3 is the current version maybe the cron has not yet caught up with you.  What is your domain please and ill have a team member take a look if they need to. 

The temporary URL is http://test.morbidentree.com/oxwall but it seems to have put itself into maintenance mode.

yes and you know how to remove that status right?   

Yeah, I just wasn't sure if I should or if it would break something.

no just sign in and see whats going on, you should be fine

Done, but now it's telling me to update to 1.7.2 again...

Oh wait, it's actually giving me this message:

your the one thats running without the cron right 

Nope, I have a cron job running every minute.

oh ok i confused you with someone else.  well click on it lol :)

Okay, it gave me the following page but it still says it's on version 1.7.2

does it still show the platform update and PI update messages

Yes.

interresting, well you broke it lmao... sorry just kidding bud....   

as long as the site is working, lets wait for a team member to come in and we can both learn something ok... 

Alright, sounds like a deal lol

Team do you have any advice for James :)

dave, thank you for your assistance.

James, please check your Oxwall software version in the Oxwall site root directory file: ow_version.xml.
And check the version in database. Go to the phpMyadmin->Ox database->ow_base_config table->config name: soft_build.
Enable DEBUG_MODE for your website in ow_includes/config.php and check for the error.

Also I would suggest you try doing a manual update . See the manual here:https://docs.oxwall.org/install:update. And some more details here:  http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/10159?page=1#post-51034

The version in both the xml file and database is 1.7.2 (build 8520)

Okay, I did the manual update and it updated to 1.7.3, but I'm getting 404 errors on every page now...

EDIT: Interestingly, if I go to the index.php file directly it shows the installation, but still gives me a 404.