Having problem with "ob_start('gz_handler');" (seg fault)

Hello, I'm having a mysterious problem with phpMyAdmin 2.6.1. I've already consulted the phpMyAdmin forum on sourceforge but so far I've not had any answers come my way. All of a sudden this morning I found that the program stops dead in its track's during a call to "ob_start('gz_handler');". There are no errors displayed on screen but there is one error logged to the error_log. It is: [Tue Feb 22 15:38:38 2005] [notice] child pid 2909 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) I realize this is not phpMyAdmin's problem, however it was the software I was using when I found this problem. I have not made any configuration changes whatsoever for quite a long time now on my server so I don't see why it would all of a sudden stop working. I'm running Apache/2.0.40, MySQL 3.23.54, and PHP 4.2.2. I read that this might be related to hardware???? I SURE HOPE NOT! Ugh. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris.