also occurs using IE 9

Was a config.php file written at /application/config? Did you see any errors?

I do not see a config.php file, but I do see a config-defaults.php file? No errors.

please make sure the application/config directory is writable try 777 during install and set it back to what it was before if you feel that is safer.

Please also check if the session.save-Path set at your php.ini file is correct and if the folder defined there is writeable.

Additional session save check in installer by mdekker

This issue has not been resolved.
@mdekker, there is not a config.php file written at /application/config. I do not know what you mean by "try 777" unless you are referring to setting CHMOD to 777, in which case, I am not using Linux. However, I am using IIS 7 and have confirmed that IUSR has writeable permission to the /application/config directory.
@Mazi, I have checked session.save-Path in my php.ini file and it is set to C:\inetpub\temp, which is also writeable to IUSR.

unresolved

Did you try again with the last release? And if so, could you go past the session save check?

Does a clean install (so with a new database or table prefix) work for you?

I did a clean install and had to use the ip address instead of the url to walk through the installation steps, but it worked! I'm so happy to finally have this done. Thanks for your suggestions, mdekker.

session check is now in master and 2.1

possible improvement is to tell that the 'normal' paths are relative to the root of the limesurvey install while session savepath is a path relative to server root