need help with using Mail.php

Hi, I'm trying to send simple emails from a website. I used to just use "mail()" but noticed that if someone reads the headers they can see information about the webhost that I'd rather not send, so I tried Mail.php. At first it couldn't find the program so I downloaded it. Then I wrote the following test code: <?php

require_once "Mail.php";    // use PEAR

$recipients         = "you@mail.com";
$headers["From"]    = "me@mail.com";
$headers["To"]        = "you@mail.com";
$headers["Subject"]    = "test with remote host";

$body = "just testing some more now";

$params["host"]     = "mail.me.com";
$params["port"]     = "25";
$params["auth"]     = true;
$params["username"]     = "owner@me.com";
$params["password"]     = "mypassword";

$mail_object = &Mail::factory("smtp", $params); $mail_object = Mail::send($recipients, $headers, $body); if (PEAR::isError($mail_object)) { echo("<p>" . $mail_object->getMessage() . "</p>"); }else{ echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>"); } ?> But it gives the error "*Fatal error*: Call to a member function on a non-object in */mypath.com/Mail.php* on line *90*". That's where Mail calls "function send($recipients, $headers, $body)". Help please? Paula Fether