PHP issue with new 3.2.1 WordPress

So, I installed wordpress on my website and tried accessing it and got this message:

Your server is running PHP version 4.4.9 but WordPress 3.2.1 requires at least 5.2.4.

My server is running php version 5 and 5.0 for mysql databases.

I’ve looked around and saw that one should add this to the .htaccess file in the root directory in order to solve the problem ( if your host is godaddy):

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml

I did not have an .htaccess file in my directory nor did I obtain one from downloading the 3.2.1 package again and again… So i created my own:

# BEGIN WordPress

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml

# END WordPress

After uploading this and trying to access thesite.com/wordpress/ , it just downloaded the web page I was trying to access.
Basically, it did not solve the problem.

Does anybody have a solution?