Git - index-pack missing

Greetings all,

First of all, thanks for taking the time to read this and help out.  
The problem:

I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting  
account that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for  
some reason there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that  
that one particular command would not be installed, but for some  
reason that seems to be the case.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to  
completely scrap Git and try again?

Thanks,
Michael Boutros