Solved my problem. This was caused because I was using an older version of PHP (5.2). I updated to PHP 5.3 and the plugin activated fine.
I did check functions.php and didn’t see anything. I went ahead and double checked it when you posted. I’m dealing with a live site so I don’t have the liberty to just change themes on the fly like that… it was a custom theme created by someone before me and I’m coming in behind trying to make changes/updates for the client. For the most part it’s been pretty straight forward. This redirect issue is the first thing that has thrown me for a loop (duh dun tsss).
But seriously, I’ve checked every place I could thing to check with no luck yet. I wish there was an easy way to identify where the loop is hitting and being generated from.
I’m still having this issue and guess I’m the only one experiencing it then. Any ideas as to what I may be overlooking that would be causing the redirect loop?