install.php endless timeout: fresh install, Win2003

Hi all, I am new to WP, but a web developer and server admin. We’re running Win2003 SP2 with MySQL 5.0.41 and PHP 4.4.7. MySQL thinks it’s running on port 3306, but we’re using “sTunnel 4.05” (stunnel.org) to actually run on 3307. My config looks like:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress_ncdiabetesgroup_org’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘ncdiabetesgroup’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mypassword’); //yes I have the real password in here.
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:3307’);
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

I am able to connect to the db, because if I remove the “:3307” from localhost, it immediately gives a db connection error. As it stands now, nothing ever loads.

My user, ncdiabetesgroup, has full rights to the db. To double check this, I even tried my root user, which of course has full permissions as well. NO change whatsoever using root versus ‘ncdiabetesgroup’

My actual db is still an empty schema as the installer never really does anything. I never even see the welcome screen. ??

I am beyond totally puzzled on this one. And with the famous 5 minute installation, I’ve been at it almost 3 hours. I have tried every combination of DB_HOST I can think of including: 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1:3306, 127.0.0.1:3307, localhost, localhost:3306, localhost:3307, 69.59.155.174, 69.59.155.174:3306, 69.59.155.174:3307 etc. Anything that does not have 3307 attached will fail immediately. But the others again just timeout with no error.

Alternately, I am running the MySQL ADBC connector and it works like a champ for everything else. Can WP run using a DSN?

You can view my page here: https://www.ncdiabetesgroup.org/ncblog/wp-admin/install.php

Any assistance would be **GREATLY** appreciated. Thanks so much community members.