openSSL upgrade causing PHP and Apache to freak?

A little history first: I installed CVS on a Mandrake system, to make a customer happy. This meant I had to install openSSH-client and openSSH-server, which meant I had to upgrade my version of openSSH. When I did this, everything went smoothly, except the SSHd was no in conflict with openSSL and would no longer start. So, I upgraded openSSL, as well. As soon as I did that, Apache died. I tried to start Apache back up, and it went into conniptions over PHP (4.3.1 from Feb 6, so that I could get mcrypt in place). Almost all the functions built in, it was saying I had already declared, and was basically being argumentative. The very first line was also referencing a need to configure with -DEAPI. So, I did this, and it would not compile with mcrypt. I recompiled mcrypt, then re-configured PHP with -DEAPI (assuming that that request meant us --with-DEAPI; maybe, maybe not...) When I finally got PHP recompiled, Apache freaked again when I used apachectl stop; apachectl start to get everything back up and running. I disabled PHP (commented out PHP references from httpd.conf) and Apache started right up. I re-enabled PHP, and clicked on "Apply Changes" from within WebMin, and Apache seems to be running happily. Still, that sort of quirkiness *REALLY* makes me nervous... Has anybody run into a similar issue? If so, can you point me in a right direction to get this stuff figured out??? Thanks!! Justin