oooooppppppsssss.... now back to Square 1
hope u remember i asked about 'DCOM in PHP' under 'PHP forum'...
and this one also supports ver > 4.2 or whatever...
Now i understand ...

why from the machine when i run that program it worked , wheras when run from server it doesn't
10days back i donwloaded the latest version 4.2.3 (win installer exe) and installed in my machine.... so from my machine i can have more that one connection thru PHP....hmmmmmmm
but this installer was giving me problem w.r.t extension dlls
m lookin in to this also...now downloaded the other zip file and installed....
after this , i need to upgrade the server also...
will do that and get back to u....
Its so nice of you in answering ....debugging...analysing step-by-step and then giving suggestions....its good work volka....i like these kinda people...becos i also of that category...i hav been reading ur post for sometime now in this forum(i am newbie to this forum..not only to this forum but also new to PHP since 6monhts i am in to this...before that i was in VB/SQL Server)
i am curious in knowing about you...v can have private communication
Nice to hear from you too personally...may be v can send private msgs apart from posting here.....expecting urs...