google API via nuSoap

Hello all, Running PHP on IIS WIN2k. Have a strange situation which is confusing the heck out of me. I read a very interesting article about accessing the Google API via NuSoap http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/GoogleAPI/page1.html . Looked simple enough, a bit of cut and paste .. at most some tweaking ... A week later and several conversations with a german developer who doesnt speak very good english and I am starting to get a tad frustrated. My problem is (which the nuSoap developer cant seem to understand) that I am stuck inside a firewall. To send or receive http requests I need to do so through a proxy server (no control over it). This requires username/password authentication. If i just want to do a http request through CURL i would use ... curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PROXY,"http://proxy.utas.edu.au:8080"); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD,"MYusername,MYpassword"); HOWEVER using the nuSoap implimentation I cannot access the GOOGLE API or any other WSDL feed for that matter as it doesnt have a proxy feature. I tried tweaking the code to add my proxy settings to no avail ... Am I missing something? Is it impossible to do a WSDL request via a proxy server? has ANYONE managed to get the google API running from a WIN2K box? cheers Brendan.