Well, I fixed this by purging php4-mysql and php4-pear and reinstalling, then restarting apache. I don't know what happened to make it stop working, but it seems to be fine now. Jason -- Jason Day jasonday at http://jasonday.home.att.net worldnet dot att dot net "Of course I'm paranoid, everyone is trying to kill me." -- Weyoun-6, Star Trek: Deep Space 9