Thanks for th reply. I think the problem was probably due to me not having SQL Server installed on one of the cluster nodes when I installed LiteSpeed. I ended up installing SQL on the 3rd node as another passive node and the cluster configuration finished. I'm about to uninstall Litespeed and reinstall it now that i have SQL installed on all three nodes of the cluster. I'll report back, but maybe there could be something in future releases to verify SQL Server is instaleld before it tries to install LiteSpeed.
Also this is just a test cluster which we'll probably delete after this test is complete,so I'd rather not contact support for it, but after I uninstall and reinstall if I run into problems I might given I don't want to run into this when we install this in production. But again hopefully i think the problem was due to me not having SQL installed on the third node.
thanks again for all your help and confirmations ...