not sure what happened - i tried to manually install like i always do and it failed with above error - i deleted and tried the GoDaddy installer - the GoDaddy installer kept giving error so deleted folder & retried manual install & it went straight thru like normal on first try - steps i followed
created database - created folder in file directory - unpacked gallery in folder - changed permissions on var, htaccess and
php.int - went to link and linked database and went straight thru
only thing i didn't do last time was create the sub-domain thru the cpanel system - i used the one already linked from the first attempt