Might be of use to someone else, I could not get the v2.4.4 to configure and got a database error when I tried to install but 2.3.3. seems to function OK. It was the lines starting tep_db_query("insert into cconfiguration . . .
which gave the problem whereas the previous was tep_db_query("insert into " . TABLE_CONFIGURATION . " (configuration_title . . . Not sure if its that double "cc" or is that a php 7 issue? - I am running 5.6 currently