PHPEd and phpMyAdmin

I'm having problems with getting PHPEd, and through that phpMyAdmin, to work. I've downloaded both the latest version and the preview and neither work. What's more both report the same error when I try and use them. When I try and run PHPEd.exe it reports that the program "Has performed an illegal operation and must be shutdown", etc and then proceeds to tell me that it tried to access some module inside of PHPEd.exe that isn't there. What's going on and does this have anything to do with the thing it mentions about needing dcom98 or whatever, even though it's the same error for the preview?