I installed Zen Cart a while back on HostGator and Fantastico installed Zen-Cart 1.3.9d. Everything went well.

I installed ZC last week on another URL (owned by the same owner), dedicated server, and Fantastico installed version 1.3.9b.

I contacted HostGator and asked why they backed up to an earlier version. They said the earlier version was more stable. I think this answer was (swag) out of the air but, isn't Fantastico just a script? Why would someone back up to an earlier version, 1.3.9b, vs. 1.3.9d of ZC?