Help. Since a dynamic module or cgi is the only way to use php with apache 2.0..

I had to revert my web server back to apache 1.3. I really would like to run apache 2.0, a exploit was just found in 1.3, not sure what it does exactly but I don't wanna be a part of it. Anyways, I had to revert because --with-apache does not work in 2.0, and --with-apxs2 would give me errors during compiling. I've tried a few times, did make clean, reinstalled apache made sure I used --enable-module=so, but I still get the same compile issue with php. Anyone else having this issue? I wouldn't mind running it as a cgi except that when I add .html to the types for x-httpd-php, every bad link on my server attempts to start a file transfer. Any help is appreciated.