Pl. Help: Problems on Windows w/ Xitami and php 4

Installation is failing on Windows 2000 with php 4.x running through Xitami as cgi.
MySQL has been properly setup and config file properly modified.
On running wp-admin/install.php I get the cryptic error;

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in E:\xitami\xitami-25\app\webpages\wordpress\wp-includes\functions.php on line 377 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in E:\xitami\xitami-25\app\webpages\wordpress\wp-includes\functions.php on line 377 It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.

The same problem happens for WordPress 1.2.1 & WordPress 1.3.
Could this be related to running php as cgi?
Looks like the tables are not getting created. However it works with the same user name and password in mysql. Also it doesn’t complain of any others errors. Like if I intentionally delete the database, it complains that it cannot access the db. So definitely it can connect to the db. And definitely it can create table (even though it doesn’t) as it is an admin account.
Your help is appreciated.