Okay, I've waded through the first 8 or 9 pages and no one else asked, so I figure it's probably something really stupid.
But I will risk ridicule and embarrassment anyway.
On the new install, it says to find some code, which I'm not going to post here, but the fact of the matter is, my admin/functions.php file doesn't contain the code I'm supposed to be looking for.
I very much doubted the code could just be inserted in anywhere, so I tried to go on. But there's no link to the next page! I manually entered
http://***/admin/install_starshack.php?s=&step=5, and it went on, but in this case, my control panel says "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: maketableheader() in /web/sites/342/asheri/www.asheri.f2s.com/forums/admin/install_starshack.php on line 394" where the stars controls should be.
So am I a retard, or am I missing something?