Installation Woes

Hi all, I am sure this question gets asked all the time... I am attempting a manual installation of PEAR and several modules. I am running a test version of a website on an XP box running Apache. The live site is on a hosted Apache environment, which I have shell and FTP access to. PEAR is not currently installed, nor do I have access to php.ini. So, I created the following dir structure: /public_html /php /includes /PEAR /DB /Info /HTTP /Header /PEAR I then made a test script which lives in the php directory: <?php ini_set('include_path', '../php/includes/PEAR/'); require_once 'Info/Info.php'; ?> This script dies with the following error: Warning: main(PEAR.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in d:\devel\html\resortscopev2\php\includes\PEAR\PEAR\Remote.php on line 21 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='../php/includes/PEAR/') in d:\devel\html\resortscopev2\php\includes\PEAR\PEAR\Remote.php on line 21 So I am guessing that the problem is that my ini_set is not global to all the PEAR modules. Like I said, I cannot modify the php.ini file, so whatever I do, it has to be manual. How can I set my PEAR directories? -Erich-