php 4.2.3, gd2, freetype 2 and still a problem with truetype fonts

hello everybody, I am working with php 4.2.3, apache/1.3.26, on windows 2000 and thought that I finally managed to successfully install gd2. but of course I was wrong, it is only working as long as I don't use truetype-functions. still my phpinfo() tells me that FreeType Support is enabled, as well as FreeType Linkage with freetype . I have checked already many archives, but only found solutions for this problems for older php- or freetype-versions. those didn't work with my configuration. has anybody a solution to my problem? please!!!!!!! (the error message is: "Could not find/open font in c:\...", and it is not a problem of wrong path, I tried everything) thank you very much in advance, ciao, claudia