Installing and testing SOAP

Hi All, I am having loads of trouble confirming that my install of SOAP is working. Some scripts kick back errors, some don¹t do anything at all. I have tried several simple ³hello world² type client/server examples with no apparent success. I am pretty sure I have all the requirements. I think I installed all the prerequisites from PEAR. I am using PHP 4.3.4, APACHE 1.3.29, running on Solaris 2.6. Do I need to do anything special to make XML work? I ran a couple of XML scripts and using the Pocket Reference I tried to get a Parse error and did. Does that mean XML is working on the server? Do I need cURL? Somewhere in an error message or on a site I thought I read that I needed cURL. I installed it, but I fear since I don¹t know how to test it, that I have just added more variables to this quest. I went out yesterday and bought some books on the subject. The PHP Cookbook has an example for a Google API. I attempted that with no success. I then started searching for more code for the Google API, found a better example and installed that. Generated a developer¹s key and submitted a query. Nothing came back, the page simply reloaded. I would greatly appreciate some help! I have a client that requires SOAP. We didn¹t put this in the budget and I have already spent way too much time beating on this. Please help! Thanks, Corey