Installing and upgrading help

We seem to get stuck at the page to configure "Site Settings" when I click the button it bring me back to the same page.

Also all of the previous pages start out with the following visiable in the browser

> body\">";?>

The submit button is

<? print_string(

Any ideas on what to do?  I am already using the .htaccess file and that seems to be read.

The databases are being created.  We have to wipe them to get un-stuck but are then at ground zero again.

We are using Mandrake 9.1 Beta:

• apache-1.3.27-5mdk
• apache-common-1.3.27-5mdk
• apache-conf-1.3.27-3mdk,
• apache-modules-1.3.27-5mdk
• libphp_common430-430-7mdk
• mod_php-4.3.0-2mdk
• php-cgi-4.3.0-7mdk
• php-ini-4.3.0-1mdk
• php-mysql-4.3.0-1mdk
• libmysql10-3.23.55-1mdk
• MySQL-3.23.55-1mdk
• MySQL-client-3.23.55-1mdk
• php-mysql-4.3.0-1mdk
• moodle-1.0.8.1