PEAR & permissions

Hi All, I've been using PEAR on a development server for a few weeks, and find some of the tools extremely useful - I've now come to get our main server upgraded, and it has PEAR installed successfully (Note - our server is maintained external to my controls).... The standard set of PEAR packages are on there, however, I want to add some more, so I typed PEAR list, and got the list of installed packages. Then typed: Pear install Services_Weather And received the following error: Warning: mkdir(/usr/local/lib/php/Services): Permission denied in System.php on line 241 syntax error near unexpected token `(' I've then contacted my hosting company, who came back with the following response: "You need to set some sort of 'working directory' variable as you should not be trying to write anything to /usr/local/lib/php . Perhaps you need to use $HOME or something to install the files in your home folder?" Is there a way I can install, successfully, the PEAR packages without writing to a "wrong" directory. Any assistance would be grateful! Thanks James