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WooHOO!!!!
as I am a newB for php, I have no idea what the different between the CGI version and the SAPI version is, but telling my IIS6 to use the CGI version fixed the issues I was having and SMARTFAQ finally installed and ran correctly!
Thank you!!!
p.s
for other newb's out there, what I did was
a. Go to IIS Manager
b. Go to Web Service Extensions
c. If PHP was previously added, go to its properties; otherwise Add a new web service extension
d. Name it PHP and for the required file add \php\php.exe
e. now go to the default's website properties
f. In the home directory tab, click configuration
g. In the mappings tab, if .php was previously added, edited it and set the Executable to \php\php.exe
walla, fixed my problems and everything seems to be running smooth.
p.p.s
there are a few other steps that might be needed; you can find those in any other php guide out there.