global vs. per-site php.ini settings

Greetings, while it is easy to set the php-as-module settings on a per-vhost case using php_admin_flag and php_admin_value it seems to be much harder to achieve same for CGI. I have gotten PHP/CGI to read site-specific INI files, but it then subsequently ignores the 'global' INI settings set in the php.ini file referenced by --with-config-file-path ./configure parameter - which is exactly opposite to what I would like it to do. questions: - is there a way to make PHP/CGI parse _multiple_ .ini files if so - in what what overrides what, what is the sequence? - is there a way to 'include' a 'global' .ini file into the per-site files, other that of putting the statements from the global one in the site-specific one? i don't want to have to change every site-specific config when/if i need to change a 'global' setting (register_globals comes to mind) any help will be most appreciated, thank you in advance -- Tomasz Orzechowski tmo@apk.net APK.net systems administration team TO630