Cannot create new menu

Steps:
– In appearance section of WordPress dashboard, click on Menus.
– Enter menu name in menu name field.
– CLick on the Create Menu button.

Result:
– User is forwarded to wp-admin/nav-menus.php which is blank but displays the following errors:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\…\wp-admin\includes\menu.php on line 18

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\…\wp-admin\includes\menu.php on line 67

Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in C:\…\wp-admin\includes\plugin.php on line 889

Currently using Xampp running PHP version 5.3.1. I also used the Joomla to wordpress migrator plugin.