require include

Ok it used to be that when you included a file.. let's say web structure /Users/username/Sites/domain.com/public_html/ a file called index.php in web root /Users/username/Sites/domain.com/public_html/index.php would include template/temp.php /Users/username/Sites/domain.com/public_html/template/temp.php and temp.php would include a web root file called next.php /Users/username/Sites/domain.com/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.. my ini_get("include_path") = /Users/username/Sites/domain.com/phpinc phpinc is in the same folder as public_html Thanks! Rick "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson