Help! Weirdness with PHP as CGI on Win95

This may well be an apache question, but somehow I don't think so. I'm building an intranet for my department at work and part of it involves a script that sends e mail. That's really not all that important, though. I'm trying to build a test environment for scripts at home so that i can try them out without having to upload them first. The real problem is that php doesn't seem to be accepting switches from forms. By switches I mean something like this: <form action="mail.php" method="post"> <input type="text" name="bleah"> </form> and then in the handler.. <? echo $bleah; ?> This doesn't seem to work and it's driving me nutty. Is this a common problem on Win95? Seems like a pretty substantial bug if so... BTW, phpinfo() reckons I'm using "PHP Version 4.0.1pl2" Cheers, Bradley