Thought I'd letchano ... we're functional again. [i]wildteen88[/i]'s comments got me to thinkin'. This box came with a trial of Pure Network's Network Magic (NM). I decided to try it. Don't remember if I supplied it or the setup process just grabbed it, but NM cached a copy of php.ini - it also had dll files for PHP5, which I've never had on this box, so I suspect NM [i]helped[/i] me <grrr />.. I uninstalled NM, set httpd.conf error reporting to [i]debug[/i], rebooted. When I reinitialized Apache, I got a couple of error dialogs: "Unable to load php_mbstring.dll - specified procedure could not be found" & "Unable to load php4apache.dll - specified module could not be found" However, the scripts using GD and CURL both work, and everything else seems, at first blush, to be working OK, so I'm assuming the two error messages were transitory and the libraries finally did load. Oh, well, that's for another forum, I guess. 'Preciate the input folk ... now I won't have to install a night light next to the prostate <chuckle />.