Thanx, the key was that some of them have to be complete paths like /homepages/30/d190000162/htdocs/catalog/
So the configure.php's were lacking MySQL settings, I put all that in and now I am getting:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /homepages/30/d190000162/htdocs/catalog/admin/includes/configure.php on line 86 (the 'USE_PCONNECT' line)
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('DB_PREFIX', '');
define('DB_SERVER', 'db477.perfora.net');
define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'dbo197238294');
define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'mypassword');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'db197238294'');
define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?
define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'db'); // use 'db' for best support, or '' for file-based storage




