GD issue

[mattswanson]

I'm not a programmer a bit of a newbie to the server and systems side of things so please bear with me.

I've been having problems getting GD to work on our installation of Vbulletin. Recently in talking to one of the systems guys at our host they told me that GD has to be loaded dynamically and to use this to call it:

<?php

dl('gd.so');

?>

To the best of my knowledge all of the appropriate settings are set up in our admin to support GD so I'm guessing that this not how it is set up in vbulletin. What do I need to do and where do I need to do it to get this to work on my installation?