The solution to the problem that an associate of mine from seriouslistings.com suggested was this....
If you have a W32 OS and are running Apache with PHP 4.5+ then a common reason is that you installed as a module and are using the Zend Optimizer.
As tested we found that if your php.ini file is in your WINNT or WINDOWS directory and you leave the php DLLs in the c:\php folder then the problem will persist.
I tested by commenting out the bottom three lines in my php.ini file as follows;
[Zend]
#zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts="C:\Program Files\Zend\Optimizer\lib\Optimizer-2.5.10"
#zend_extension_ts="C:\Program Files\Zend\Optimizer\lib\ZendExtensionManager.dll"
#zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
And it solved the problem on my tests. My "GUESS" is that when you install zend that you "DO NOT" use the default methods in the installer and when you select the location of the php.ini file that you be sure its in the c:\php directory.
Another thing I would check is the system properties.
1) Right Click on "My Computer" and select "Properties"
2) Select the Advanced Tab
3) Select the button "Environmental Variables"
4) Select the "variable" from the list titled "PATH"
5) Make sure you have something like this;
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\php;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin
Best of luck and I've no idea on a WIN2K machine
Jared
http://www.jaredsdesigns.com
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2005 08:10PM by Jared Ritchey.