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I've followed the step by step process and keep running into these errors. Is there anyone who would be willing to help me do this over instant messenger??? Please help before I pull all of my hair out!

You have yet to CHMOD config.php and settings.php to 777 so that they can be written to and read by everyone.

Not to sound dumb, but does this mean it wont work on a windows server? I've seen those settings while working with a unix deal, but not on windows.

Well, people have installed in on windows before. Basicly, its saying it can't open the file because it doesn't have permission to it and it can't do the other things needed (writing and close) either. So might I suggest going to http://www.mybbhosting.com/ and get a free board from there!

I have a huge server to host this stuff. I just have no clue how to change the chmod for windows. Do you have any pointers?

I've never used Windows for webhosting so i'm not sure how it works. You might be able to do it with a FTP program, or you could ask your host how it's done.

Right click each of the two files (inc/config.php and inc/settings.php) and click Properties and make sure that Read Only is NOT checked.

Neither were checked...still not working. Anything else I might be over looking?

Do you have a FTP client that allows you to see/set permissions? Does the permissions say 777 on the two files? If not, you need to change it so it does.

Windows doesn't use Chmod settings, it doesn't know anything about 777, 755 etc. It uses the Windows permission system.