Greetings LugNuts, Woooo Hoooo PHPNuke runs at work!!! Don't ask me what I did... I don't rightly know. lol I uninstalled and re-installed php for one thing. I've been thrashing since I got here, and 4 hours later, she runs. reports --with-mysql=shared/usr now, which it didn't yesterday. I think that was the bulk of my problem. Started over at home last night, apache and mysql went on fine using source. I sent an email last night pointing to my journal of events. Jared deserves credit for the ILUG site. He did an awesome job didn't he? If anyone takes a glance at my journal, and knows why my php make blew up, please shoot me an email. Thanks again for all your help and support everyone!! Eric