IT guy turned user by the wordpress install

I’m working via FTP directly to my root on the server – I copy the files over after having created my DB, mySQL user and pass as well as inputing it into the wp-config.php file.

I find the install.php in the directory that it’s supposed to be in and run it, and I get this…

“wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’ ) ? ‘https://’ : ‘http://’; $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>

hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”); if ($installed) die(‘
‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’

‘); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>”

Then below that error it has two boxes to enter info and a large button that says “<?php_e<‘Continue to Second Step »’);?>”

It’s done this three times… I’m in contact with my host to see if perhaps he created the DB wrong… but I figured this might be faster…