throwing exceptions in __autoload

both: __autoload and exceptions are great features in php5, but together they don`t seem to work well. i want to add some kind of error reporting to autoload which will throw exception if class file wasn`t found in my predefined directories. i`ve prepared my own exception class which should show me nice little error message. what i get is: Fatal error: __autoload(dupa) threw an exception of type 'Exception' in [blah blah] on line 87 Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0 the same happens when pure Exception class is used. 'try' block around full code doesn`t help. i use yesterday`s php5 windows build. should i report this as an error or exceptions should [not] work like this? rash