PHP4 Session Handling

I'm attempting to work with PHP4's session handling.. Version: 4.0.4pl1 OS: Linux Involves: sesssion_module_name(); session.save_handler (php.ini) Objective: I want to define user functions so that I can save session information to mySql database. I have created the necessary functions to do this, and put them into here as so: session_set_save_handler("mysql_session_open", "mysql_session_close", "mysql_session_select", "mysql_session_write", "mysql_session_destroy", "mysql_session_garbage_collect"); Since I do not have control over the php.ini file, I cannot just go change the Master value to 'user'. There are three ways which I attempted to do this Locally. 1) Added this line into the .htaccess file: php_value session.save_handler user 2) session_module_name("user"); 3) ini_set("session.save_handler", "user"); Both of these returned a value of 'user' for the local value. However, the master value is still 'files'. At this point, everything appears to be correct, yet I *always* get this message when trying to use the 'user' module. Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /home/woodstor/thefinewoodstore-www/index.php on line 3 Line 3 is where the session_start(); function is called. I'm stuck here. How can I figure out what is wrong here? This appears to be a symptom of an older version of PHP which had a 'bug' in it, and would always return that error should you try to use session_module_name() to set the module. However, I thought this was fixed? Is there any way around this to do what I want to do? Any suggestions to figure out how to fix this? Thanks! --Arathena me@arathena.com