Using .htaccess files with PHP CGI

I am using PHP5 as a CGI and I can't seem to figure out how to set INI values through httpd.conf or .htaccess files. Since PHP isn't built as a module, the php_admin_value and php_value directives don't exist. If I had a module version of PHP along side the CGI, this would not help because as far as I know Apache won't parse those php directives and pass them to the CGI instance. I know I can call the CGI binary using a Handler and pass var=value arguments using the '-d' flag, but I want to be able to set them differently per Virtual Host. Specifically, I want to set 'session.save_path' for each virtual host to a directory other than the one set in php.ini that only apache can read/write to since my suexec'd php cgi binary can only write session data to a directory owned by the virtual host user. How can this be done? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. -Jason Kovacs