[majoreyeswater]

Thank you for that, I am taking it up with my hosts as I type. Should the php.ini file be situated in the Windows directory at all, especially is later on it is suggesting it is on \PHP5\ - am a little confused by that.

UPDATE:

I have just had a response from the hosting service, although I am getting more than slightly concerned that they don't really know what they are doing:

We have PHP4 and PHP5, some customers prefer one or the other and our control panel allows them to choose which.

PHP4 is in C:\PHP4
PHP5 is in C:\PHP5

Neither should be using a php.ini in C:\Windows. In fact there isn't such a file in that location. They should use their own .ini in their respective directories.

I don't know how (or why) PHP4 could be picking up the .ini for PHP5. I also don't know if there is any way of forcing it to use the correct one. Any ideas?

My set up is pointing to the PHP4 option and rather than change my own board settings, I rather keep the config as it is and get them to correct the PHP config so as simple things like GD lib will actually work.

I'm out of my depth at the moment and short of taking this all back in house, or moving it elsewhere and inconveniencing my users yet again, I could do with some other pointers.

All your inputs and efforts are appreciated.