IF I went on PHPNUKE.ORG???
Now that is funny.

IF you can READ and UNDERSTAND...

The ONLY time that I see CHMODing even mentioned in the INSTALL.txt file in the Nuke7.4 package from http://www.phpnuke.org
is this part

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3) In order to use the ultramode.txt news file please be sure to chmod 666. This file is used to show news from your site in some old programs and frontends and is reserved to future use in PHP-Nuke. For backend use backend.php file instead.

Creating a MySQL database is not hard either, ESPECIALLY if you already have a webhost, you can simply ask them and save yourself a lot of grief.

Here's the entire install section in that txt file.

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Installing the Package ---------------------- Unzip the package into the directory you want to use on you web server, if you're unsure where that is, ask you system administrator. Now go to the directory where you uncompressed all files and edit the file "config.php". Change all the fields until you are happy with the changes and they fits the need of your web site. Give special attention to the database configuration section. When you have finished to edit config.php file change to the /sql/ directory and there is a file called "nuke.sql" this file contains the commands to build the database structure, tables and the default data. If you're using a software like phpMyAdmin go to step 3. 1) Create a database called, for example, nuke: mysqladmin create nuke 2) Now fill the databases with the tables in nuke.sql file: mysql nuke < nuke.sql 3) In order to use the ultramode.txt news file please be sure to chmod 666. This file is used to show news from your site in some old programs and frontends and is reserved to future use in PHP-Nuke. For backend use backend.php file instead. 4) That's it!... now you need to edit the file "config.php" to set the database options. Please read carefully the instruction on that file! After that, point your browser to: http://yourdomain.com/admin.php We use MySQL as the example and nuke.sql file is in MySQL format because PHP-Nuke was made using this database server. You can find many programs out there to convert the database schema from MySQL to whatever else you want. But this is a task for you.

does that sound soooo complicated?