Install freezing in Drupal 6.x

My system is as follows - Dedicated Server Quad Core 2.4 Xeon 100Mbit 10TB

Drupal 6.x
CentOS / CPanel
MYSQL 5.2.5
PHP 5

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When I goto install.php it asks for the username/password/databasename

then it goes through until it gets to initializing.. it freezes..

Any ideas why?

I installed mbstring and PDO as it requested and warned.

I would like to get this up and running and would appreciate any help. I am really interested in using Drupal as my CMS.

Thank you,
Andrew