ok i just checked, php version is 4.3.3 on apache 1.3.29 on gentoo linux.
and no, i just tried using the $_POST method and the absolute pathname methods, neither seemed to work
and i had a thought, does the fact that apache has keep alive on make any difference at all?
and another thought... by doing a $_REQUES T or a $_POST, is that retrieving or sending some kind of header to the browser??
and another note, ive done some looking around and have tried puttin ob_start and ob_end_flush() at the beginning and end of the script respectively, and nothing has changed