Thank you for that. I should have taken a step back and looked at this. I am up and running now.

Install seemed to go fine... got all green indictors and a link to view my blog. But then it went to a blank page. I tried to go to the admin page and this is what I got.
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\htdocs\serendipity\include\plugin_api.inc ...