Receiving Microsoft Internet extension errors from script

I'm having a problem with my php script when it tries to display db query's that are more involved (joining and what not). For the basic queries php doesn't have a problem but when I start trying to join tables and what not it returns an error to the browser saying: An Internal Error occurred in the Microsoft Internet extensions. I was orignally running php as a module and was getting this error message on a lot less complicated queries. I switched to cgi mode and it has greatly improved. I'm running Apache (latest stable ver for win32) Php (latest stable ver for win32) MySQL (latest stable ver for win32) Windows 2000 Pro all of the above are fresh installs; no upgrades The apache access log shows this: XXX.XX.XX.XXX - - [03/Oct/2001:16:09:32 -0700] "GET /hlstats.php?mode=players&game=cstrike&sort=skill&sortorder=asc HTTP/1.1" 200 44749 and the error log doesn't have any entries. also, I've noticed that the machine that the servers are running on never gets any errors.