Installion just straight not working

That is very strange, as the updater should detect the database changes and offer to run the updates for you. Can you try the suggestion here and see what the result is:

You can also check in your database gibbonSetting table to see what the version is listed as, this is mine as an example (already busy on the next dev version). Also, are you using cutting edge? Check the cuttingEdgeCode and cuttingEdgeCodeLine to see if they have gotten out of sync somehow.