Hi Peter,
Here is my Server Configuration
Apache Version : 2.2.22
PHP Version : 5.3.13
MySQL Version : 5.5.24
Loaded Extensions : Core bcmath calendar com_dotnet ctype date ereg filter ftp hash iconv json mcrypt SPL odbc pcre Reflection session standard mysqlnd tokenizer zip zlib libxml dom PDO Phar SimpleXML wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter apache2handler mbstring gd mysql mysqli pdo_mysql pdo_sqlite mhash xdebug
I can install sample data and quickstart works as intended.
Please check again. If you use editor like Firebug in Firefox, try to check the error tab in order to see whether there is any error appear when you install this quickstart package.
Regards