That sounds like something other people who were trying to make a windows install ran into. Some searching around install forum might bring back some help, if not:

http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/installation/well_host_yo...

If windows is the issue - is there another way I can install the software?

Thanks

c5 was developed for a Unix/PHP/MySQL environment.

Our servers we typically run Centos, but I think most unix distributions would be fine.

I would strongly advise anyone who isn't comfortable with system administration work to simple choose a unix based web host that will run concrete5 for you.

We do for a measly $15/month athttp://getconcrete5.com

pair.com can give you hosting account that can run c5 for even less.

I know people have had bad luck with godaddy, and i hear mediatemple is fine.

gluck!
-frz