Ok I was able to get it working, here is what I did.
I installed on what is essentially a blank cpanel install, worked perfectly.
I tried renaming .htaccess and putting in a default one on my actual site, no luck but a different error not the useless wordpress error page.
I opened a ticket with cpanel explain what is happening, they looked at things and a couple back and forth exchanges I ended up disabling all the security in the WP Toolkit to do the install and then enabled again.
I now have a fresh install so can move my albums over from my old server.
Thanks again, I hope this helps someone else so to speak...
Doug