rand(), mt_rand(), and my inability to make either of them random.

I have this scriptlet: $items = 6; $randnum = rand(1,$items); echo $randnum . "<br><br>"; Always, no matter how many times I hit refresh, it'll always return the lowest possible value, in this case 1. If I have rand(4,$items), it returns four. So I tried mt_rand(), with this: $items = 6; $randnum = mt_rand(1,$items); echo $randnum . "<br><br>"; This always, without fail, returns the highest possible value. 6 in this case. I'm using Apache/4.0.3pl1 on Windows 2000, locally, just to develop. Could this be a cache type problem? Could the gods be conspiring to drive me steadily insane? April