There is no panic. This is a temporary domain that I use. My hope is to get this working if not, I will simply remove it and move on to something that works for me. However, I would like to get it working. To answer your questions.

1. There was not a pre-existing database. I added a couple of dummy products to test. No luck of course.
2. Yes a log was created, but nothing to do with the admin. Specifically: "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{' in /home/[login]/public_html/includes/classes/class.StringHelper.php on line 68:
3. Yes it was enabled.

Hopefully that is enough information to find help. Regards.