File system & ftp_get/ftp_fget issues

Running PHP 4.2.3 with FTP compiled into the interpreter. I have some code that uses ftp_get that doesn't work correctly. The FTP daemon actually hands off the text file, but the PHP script doesn't write it to disk (/tmp/pmrc.$username) for some unknown reason. If I su to the user that runs httpd (apache), it is able to manually run FTP and download the file to that same path. So its probably not file privileges. I changed the code to use fopen() and ftp_fget() and now it mostly works. It gives the following message at the top of the page: Warning: ftp_fget(): in /usr/local/squirrelmail/plugins/procfilter/procfilter_options.php on line 178. Then it proceeds to do everything correctly. According to the syslog output, the FTP server received the connection, login, and get command and completed processing them in about 1 or 2 seconds, but it takes 1 to 3 minutes for the page to appear in my browser. I can deal with the delay, although I bet its a symptom of the problem and therefore a clue. The error message at the top of the screen is just silly, though. Why is it giving me an uninformative error message and then doing things correctly anyway? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Jaime -- Network Administrator Cairo-Durham Central School District