I double checked Curl was working on the server.. and it appears to be working just fine.. http://go.followclix.com/bing/curltest.php
<?
//Three parts to the querystring: q is address, output is the format, key is the GAPI key
$key = "x";
$address = urlencode("columbia MO");
//If you want an extended data set, change the output to "xml" instead of csv
$url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=".$address."&output=csv&key=".$key;
//Set up a CURL request, telling it not to spit back headers, and to throw out a user agent.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0); //Change this to a 1 to return headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo "Data: ". $data;
?>