socket support question

Hi, I understand that PHP has experimental extension for sockets. I am currently running both versions 4 and 4.1.2 on Windows machines, but I have read that in order to use the socket functions, the --enable-sockets option must be enabled at compile time. My problem is the of the "undefined function: socket_create()" variety. I guess I don't support sockets :( An article on DevShed.com says that <quote> Windows users get a pre-built binary with their distribution</quote>. Is this true? If I update to 4.2 will sockets be supported? If not, is it even worth compiling it on Windows (is it even possible)? Thanks and please excuse my ignorance! Lee PS: I just noticed on [http://www.php.net/downloads.php] that the following file can be downloaded: PHP 4.2.0 zip package [4,898Kb] - 22 April 2002 (CGI binary plus server API versions for Apache, AOLserver, ISAPI and NSAPI. MySQL support built-in, many extensions included, packaged as zip) Are sockets included in the "many extensions"?