Imagick functions time out... help!

I am having trouble getting the Imagick extension to work and am looking for any suggestions on what to do. My system information is as follows. Redhat Linux 7.3 ImageMagick-5.5.6 php-4.3.2RC2 Imagick 0.9.6 PHP Config: './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-gettext=/usr' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-zlib=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-tiff-dir=/usr' '--with-ttf=/usr' '--with-imagick=/usr' '--with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql' '--with-dom' '--enable-ftp=/usr' '--enable-exif=/usr' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-wddx' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-trans-sid' The main problem right now is that when I try to run the example script to resize an image, I receive a PHP Error to the effect of "Maximum execution Time of 30 seconds exceeded." I have tried messing with file permissions of the directory the script is being run from even granting full permissions (777) thinking that would make a difference, I have also tried editing the resize script with the absolute path to the 'example' image included in the distribution with no luck. As far as I can tell the extension itself compiled correctly and it does appear in the output of the phpinfo() command. I have tried updating all the relevant software on my system (ImageMagcik, PHP, Apache etc), but the problem persists. I am really at a loss, as to where to go now. Any suggestions? Are there any functions in the extension to get debug info?? Thanks in advance. Alan