I’m not sure why you’re trying to dismiss this issue. Yes, that’s a work round, but isn’t the entire point of Mail-in-a-Box to be absolutely pain free? You’ll see I found the workaround before even posting here, but having the first install attempt fail with an obscure error message (even if the solution is easy, once you find it) isn’t exactly pain free.
I created another post here because the one I linked to had been closed with no actual resolution. This setup bug certainly isn’t a showstopper, but I figured it deserved some attention (and maybe a fix) from someone more familiar with the MIAB setup then myself. Plus, the theory that something in the OS was going around installing Apache post-install was just weird and needed some counter evidence.