Further Information -
I have gotten it running on another webhost - and it went down a treat!
PHP Version
4.4.2
MySQL
4.1.18-log
SO! it's clearly something going on with versioning
http://l2p.awardspace.co.uk/rosterB <--- working system second host
http://l2p-guild.co.uk/roster <--- initial base install
http://l2p-guild.co.uk/rosterB <--- *
* Base install performed on the alternate webhost
phpMyAdmin roster tables copied via SQL export and sent to new server
conf.php file edited for proper connection info and uploaded
the only thing I could *POSSIBLY* have done wrong is in manually renaming upgrade / install and install I may have renamed update
instead of upgrade
once again ... checking when i get home from work
I think the new professional webhost is going to need a ticket submission for veersion updating