Ah, I apologize for not posting an update. The problem has been solved:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31855904/emacs-sees-the-directory-with-the-new-org-mode-version-but-loads-the-old-versio
Thank you very much for the reply!
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Grant Rettke
Create a init file with only the contents and use that to start EMACS
(add-to-list 'load-path ~/.emacs.d/org-20150803)
(require 'org)
And check the `org-version'. It ought to be what you expect. Did you
get that from a ZIP? Did you follow the directions to generate the
autoloads and stuff?
