PHP4 & GIF Generation, I'm stuck!

I'm out of things to try so I hope one of you has an idea. The only item holding us back from deploying a php4 site we are working on is that we are unable to get the Windows COM interface working. Our Configuration.. OS - NT4 SP6a PHP Version - 4.0.1pl2 HTTP Server - O'Reilly WebSite Pro 2.4.22 Code Snippet.. $id = new com("otf_GIF31.GIF_Encode"); print "Loaded otf_GIF Version {$id->Version}"; This code works perfectly the first time it is used after restarting the http server. The output is.. Loaded otf_GIF Version otf_GIF31 3.1.18. After that the error message is.. Warning: Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID {36D611A0-FAE1-11D1-AAEF-0000C0378AC3}: CoInitialize has not been called. in D:\Web_Sites\Testing_PHP4\HTdocs\test_com.php4 on line 9 Loaded otf_GIF Version TIA Howard A. Cohodas Design Knowledge Technologies Inc. Phone: (011)(330)492-9900 FAX: (011)(330)492-1100 otfGIF Encoder: http://www.dkt.com/otfGIF