Unique yet Eerie

I'm have a strange problem. I've encoutered a few before, but nothing like this: New machine with php4.2.2 on RedHat with Apache2.0 All my forms use POST method. But I noticed that some scripts when i submit the form, i get wierd data. For example: say i have <input type=hidden name="example" value="val"> then what i will get for $example is the string "valexample=val" instead of just "val"!!! even the $_POST[example] variable gives the same thing... magic quotes and globals are ON. If i put it to GET, then it works fine. But i don't want to put GET! Especially that you can't use get for file uploads. Also, i think this is screwing up my uploads! I uploaded a text file and saw that it inserted a bunch of text right in the middleof the file!! Something like: -----------------------------7d3323a150580 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="userfile"; filename="C:\Documents and Settings\file.txt" Content-Type: text/plain So something is causing my php to insert the name of the variable and other stuff into the variable itself..ANY IDEAS?