Reinstalling doesn't fix bad php install

I 'loaded PHPdev4 a month ago, and everything looked great. [http://www.firepages.com.au] (I'm using win2k) Then I left it alone for a while. Finally I got ready to buckle down and learn, and now the damm thing doesn't operate. Apache still runs, but no PHP is being parsed. I try to manually start php.exe and get a box saying that the path to php4ts.dll can't be found. I didn't mess with anything in the phpdev directory. So I deleted the entire directory (because there is no uninstall), then reloaded, and the problem remains. I placed copies of 'php4ts.dll' in various directories, and now I get an empty dos window instead of a warning box, but it still does not run. (I'm too new to know any dos) The only thing that could possibly have affected anything is that I added a 'sidebar' to my Opera7 beta browser build. How that could do anything like this I don't know, but that action seemed to trigger the loss of the main nav buttons on that browser. Reinstalling also failed there, until someone said to delete the opera6.ini file, then installing it returned it to normal. As I know next to nothing about these matters, I'm fogged. If I only knew which php files need deleting so as to perform a clean install, I'd be a happy camper! (does everyone have these problems?) Big John ===== "What the world needs is a good bug ring"--Big John <http://users.rraz.net/mc_on_the_rocks/testpage/pie.html> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com