Are you sure the path is
  *  ?

Shouldn't that be
  *  C:\Program ?

If you have a choice, you'd better install unix-like tools in directories outside the 'standard' Windows directories, for example
  *

By the way, modern versions of MS Windows (XP, Vista) can handle forward slashes quite well internally. You will only get into trouble with the classic command line utilities, which still reserve the forward slash as the default 'option' character.