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from what I remember, you can turn off the superglobals in the ini.. I don't know why you'd want to, other than to eek out a tiny bit faster rendering time for whatever the hell the page does.. since some pages don't need the superglobals for anything..
I don't think you can, well.. you could munge it from the variables_order INI setting, but I don't know if it'd flag a configuration error within PHP if you removed all of the EGPCS! I would hope it would
Under php 4.3.something (not 5), it could get lost when including includes from includes, etc. PHP5 has fixed all the occasions I've needed to use it in the past, but since most hosting companies still use php4 (as they should), it's still needed for compatability.