Version to use when PHP 5.2.6 is available

Found part of the answer I was looking for in the Duplicator FAQ. I do not have to worry about installing the new site on to the Windows server running without ZipArchive extension and running PHP 5.2.6. Thank you.
Also seems that the extension is installed on the Windows server. At least I think it is. Found the following line below in Phpinfo under “Zip” but did not see the extension (“–enable-zip”) mentioned in “Configure Command”.
Extension Version $Id: php_zip.c,v 1.1.2.43 2008/01/18 00:51:38 pajoye Exp $

Still looking for alternate solution. Going to research if a higher version of PHP can be installed with the root directory only before asking the web host to do a server wide upgrade.

Thank you Cory..

I was not able to get the web host to upgrade the PHP version. I had to convince the client to move webhost to Godaddy.com server.

then when all said and done, I had issue with using Duplicator to backup and restore from both my local server and demo server. On several occasions, I would restore and the text was gargled with funny looking characters all across the restored site on the Godaddy.com server. I even went back and made sure I matched the Php version on my local and demo server along with matching the php extensions on to the Godaddy.com server. Still no luck with fixing missing images and garbled text. In the end, I basically had to export all the posts and pages and luckily the theme i was using has an option to export the theme options (avatar from themeforest). Plus, I had to recreate the menus.

In the end, it was quite an experience and in the future it would be nice to see an option of transferring archive and installer via FTP at a minimum.

Thank you for responding and I will continue to use Duplicator. This site just happened to be a pain in the rear end (http://cci-rigging.com) :-).