I just did this myself. Definitely had to do an upgrade as well.
So if you're still having issues, do the conversion, which will convert to a 1.9.2+, it says, but I think it just makes it 1.9.2. Then mv anope.db anope.db.old and run the upgrade.
Then just move the anope.db to the data folder, start/restart and you should be good. What I also did, which might help, was save my services.conf back, and delete and reinstall anope altogether and then do it. It should work great.