installed pear on LAMP hosting account fine - can not install package

I installed it successfully several weeks ago and verified it does work. I can reference it in my php code and it works. Now I want to add some packages and I can't execute the pear command from anywhere in the directory structure. The structure is something like this, /usr/local/other/pear/. Under /pear I found a file called, ".registry". Does that mean it think it installed it on a windows machine? What do I do to get to a point where I can install additional packages? Many thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com