File upload - disappearing variables

Hi folks, I've been banging my head against a problem with file uploads for the last few days. Perhaps someone here has seen this before. My problem is that when handling my file uploads, I can print out the values of my form variables, both using HTTP_POST_VARS["var"] and $var. I can also see all the values in phpinfo(). However, as soon as I try and do anything with the variables, they appear to be empty. So even trying a simple if ($HTTP_POST_VARS["var"] == "value") { print "Got here"; } fails to match the variable! I'm running PHP Version 4.0.4pl1 on RedHat 7.0 My form has the following form tag: <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="gallery.php" method="post"> After that I have 2 txt input fields, and a file input field. (I've also tried both with and without a MAX_FILE_SIZE field). I've tried everything I can think of - even trying to convert the values in HTTP_POST_VARS into completely new variables, but nothing seems to work. Has anyone else encountered anything like this? Any suggestions of where I should look to fix this? Cheers for any help ;-) .steve -- http://www.cookstour.org/ http://www.wapwarp.com/ http://www.wap-dev.net/