FTP & include_path

hi my problem is : first, the php ftp functions didnt work. i tried it on my web server Apache. the problem was it took such a long time to load and it ended up with error message that tells you that 30 seconds had expired.(i have no idea) . how can i be sure that i can use php ftp functions such ftp_connect, ftp_login on my web server? second, i immigrated from 4.0.5 to 4.2.2 and the problem was when i use include() function in my scripts, the output said that it couldnt find include_path(c:/php4/pear) on my browser. please help :(