include() is being EXTREMELY slow

greetings. my webhost recently switched to a new provider with the latest version of php with apache on unix. I have had nothing but problems with include() since then. Aside from not being able to include most (but not all) remote html files, even the LOCAL html, text, or php files being called locally by include() are taking extremely long to include (4-5 seconds). The files to be included are no longer than 2 to 10 lines of text, but the delay is well into 4-5 seconds (which is considerably too long given that php is supposedly one of the fastest languages). I did not have this problem with my previous server. files (both remotely and locally) were included in a split second. Ideas? Help? Please?? Thank you. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com