Hi. I have the same problem as others in this thread, except I don't see <?=$info?>, so I assume that it's not a problem with shorttags.
I tried adding php_flag short_open_tag on to .htaccess with no luck. I don't know how I could restart apache as I'm on shared hosting...
I'm running WAMP locally and tried the install. Ran into the shorttags issue (<?=$info?>, etc was displayed). I edited .htaccess and install worked.
I just don't know why this isn't working on my web server.
PHP ver: 5.2.3
MySQL ver: 5.0.45
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!