Quickstart 3.x results in Blank Frontend

I've rebuilt the server and am trying to install Quickstart 3x for Game Mag. The install, permissions are fine. The backend is fine post quickstart. The front end displays nothing. I've worked on this for hours... Putting the site offline shows the default image and login, but putting the site back online goes back to blank.

I followed all the settings for in the quickstart guide and fac. I ran through the troubleshooting doc, and everything seems good. If I set the site back to a stock default template, the frontend works and has all the K2 articles.

I downgraded php from 5.6 to 5.4.36 after reading the install doc which suggested the latest php 5.4 release. This had no change in behavior.
PHP 5.4.36 (cli) (built: Dec 29 2014 23:23:15)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies


Enabling php logging results in the following. I read php stricts are annoying, but not fatal for the page. The notcies I'm going to assume are okay too... There are no fatals.

[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: login in /data/www2/templates/gk_game_magazine/layouts/blocks/tools/login.php on line 21
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: register in /data/www2/templates/gk_game_magazine/layouts/blocks/tools/register.php on line 16
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /data/www2/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/helper.php on line 553
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method NSP_GK4_Utils::cutText() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /da
ta/www2/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/tmpl/layout.parts.php on line 200
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method NSP_GK4_Thumbs::createThumbnail() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible conte
xt in /data/www2/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/tmpl/layout.parts.php on line 304
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method NSP_GK4_Thumbs::checkSpecialImages() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible co
ntext in /data/www2/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/gk_classes/gk.thumbs.php on line 127
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method NSP_GK4_Thumbs::translateName() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context
in /data/www2/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/gk_classes/gk.thumbs.php on line 127
[30-Dec-2014 05:14:38 UTC] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method NSP_GK4_Thumbs::getRealPath() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context i
n /data/www2/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/gk_classes/gk.thumbs.php on line 32

Screenshot of errors when hitting the front page.

Apache returns 200 Okay:
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2925 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0"

I also found that during the install, the Installation and Pre-Installation Check are empty. See attached screenshot...
Most of this points to something with PHP not working right... this is how it is configured:

./configure \
--with-libxml-dir=/usr \
--enable-xml \
--includedir=/usr/include \
--libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec \
--with-mysql \
--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \
--with-zlib \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-soap \
--with-gettext \
--with-iconv \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-config-file-path=/etc \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d \
--enable-shared \
--enable-soap \
--with-curl=/usr/local

I've just installed the Meet Gavern Quickstart using the exact same steps, with no issue at all. So the problem appears to be with the Game Magazine templates for 3.x and my software versions.

Hello,

Please send me a PM message with FTP and back-end access to your website.