I had been on 4 because some live servers I was on were still on 4. I will switch my local host to 5... lets see what happens

Update: What do you know...
it works! That did it. I have to thank you so much for your assistance. So will it's not compatible with php4 enabled servers at all? Sometimes I have to deal with people who insisst on hostingwith a company and you find they don't use PHP5 yet.
One last thing... I would love more AS3/Flash/AMFPHP tutorials because I'm working on something with Papervision3D. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks for all your help, I've learnt
A LOT.
BeechyBoy