require include

Ok it used to be that when you included a file.. let's say web structure /www/public_html/ a file called index.php in web root /www/public_html/index.php would include template/temp.php /www/public_html/template/temp.php and temp.php would include a web root file called next.php /www/public_html/next.php but for some reason temp.php is looking for the file within it's own directory instead of the directory that the original file, index.php, doing all the including is in.. Is there something I need to set in php.ini to get it to do this? Im not even sure what to google for this problem.. normally if it was my own script I would program for this, but since this is in a packaged deal.. I would hate to go through the entire thing and edit all the scripts.. Thanks! Rick "Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live." - James S. Stewart