note 30518 rejected from install.apache2 by betz

Christ! I'm gonna go potty over all this... OK.. got Windows XP Home, APache 2.0.44 and the newest PHP 4.3.2-RC1 (as well as trying recent prev versions). I've lost track of all th edifferent approaches i've used for installation. However, used the entry dated 26-2 above most recently. On face - seemed to install fine - phpinfo revealed all info. However, with this installation and others previous, it always seemes to struggle with things like user authentication scripts and anything using variables. errors achieved with most recent setup: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp\sess_3bbb3dd6324b7c22e32e75c9b04b8487, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php on line 10 Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php:10) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php on line 10 Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php:10) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php on line 10 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php:10) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\pages\login\login.php on line 42 Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown(): open(/tmp\sess_3bbb3dd6324b7c22e32e75c9b04b8487, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 I'm afraid all this has lost me. I've tried changing some session directory, to little effect. There must be millions of people who have managed to set up PHP sucesfully on a similar setup to mine. Why is it such a chore to find how to do this??? Can anyone help???? (also- sorry to flood the messages but i'm desparate!)