Installing to Windows

I did a search for this and actually found the exact same error, but no one had replied to the original poster. I'm a one man band working for an ad agency...good times. At any rate, a client has requested that form values submitted through their website be written to an excel document. I investigated and decided PEAR was probably my best bet (there's an excel writer module if I understand correctly). So, I began what has become a quest to successfully install PEAR to our staging server. It's a Win2K Server running IIS and PHP 4.3.6. Whoever initially installed PHP 4 did not install PEAR along with it for some reason. So I decided to run the command line installer, with the following directories set up: Installation prefix - C:\PHP\pear Binaries Directory - $prefix\bin PHP code directory - $ prefix\docs Documentation base directory - $prefix\docs Data Base Directory - $prefix\data Tests Directory - $prefix\tests php.exe Path - C:\PHP\php.exe I then run the installer, and it does fine for a while. Then, after 'Extracting Installer....' appears I get this: Warning: main(PEAR.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\PHP\pear\Archive\Tar.php on line 21 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='/C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIN~1.ORB\LOCALS~1\Temp\3\gop1c.tmp') in C:\PHP\pear\Archive\Tar.php on line 21 So it seems pretty clear that it's an include path problem to me. In my PHP.ini, go-pear added include_path=".;C:\php\pear" So maybe I need to change that to someplace else? But I'm also not so sure about that forward slash in front of 'C:\DOCUME!`.....' Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I'm on a solo mission over here - no IT guys, no programming dept. Just ME. heh.