new class screwup

I've been building an exended Class to Auth the past few days, and making great progress. Until tonight. The class does not work now. :( I have no idea what I did. I've reduced my login logic to this... $objAuth->start(); if ($objAuth->getAuth()) header("Location:success.php"); else echo '<div>Unsuccessful attempt, please try again.<p /></div>'; ... display my login screen... I have reduced getAuth() to this... function getAuth() { // call PEAR::Auth getAuth() method Auth::getAuth(); } A simple pass through! The script logic tells me it failed! But! If I 'X' out the method name like this... function XXgetAuth() { // call PEAR::Auth getAuth() method Auth::getAuth(); } Making my script logic call back to the orginal getAuth() method in Auth, I get the success page! I really don't understand that! Not one bit. I guess I don't understand OOP-PHP as well as I thought I did. Any ideas? Walter