PHP as a module on Windows

[One more try.] Ok, I have to ask - can you run PHP as a module on a stock Apache intall on Windows? I've tried it here several times, and I just can't seem to get it to work. I get the EAPI/DEAPI error, which seems to imply that you have to compile Apache on Win32 to do it. When I load a page, I get a "unable to include" error message. One other thing while I'm here - why was PHP changed to only accept full Windows paths? Before I was able to have a path like "/path/to/file" if the PHP binary files were on the same drive. In the last few releases though, I have to use something like "F:/path/to/file". This makes offline development just a wee bit more painful. Cheers, adam