open_basedir restriction and local value for php.ini

Hello all, I am having problems with cleint's webserver and its open_basedir settings. open_basedir is set to folder where all my php files are, but when I include a file that already includes another one (all under allowed directory tree) it throws out warnings: Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in /home/www/web14/html/lib/cmember.php on line 3 line 3 of cmember,php has: require_once "lib.php" both cmember and php are in lib directory. phpinfo() says that local settings for open_basedir is /home/www/web14 and master settings is empty. It is an older php version, 4.2.2, on SuSe Linux. So... is there anything I can do other than turning off local setting for open_basdir. And if there isn't, where do I turn off these settings, ie where do you set lolal php.ini values for particular sites? Thanx in advance. Boban. -- Please reply to the list and not to my email directly. I use usenet server and do not check yahoo email account.