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Wow. What a fun day. All sorts of problems but I managed to sort them all out. I feel like I am starting to get good at this (I know, saying that is asking for trouble!)
Upgraded to PHP 5, but then mysql was not working from PHP. This pretty easy to solve but took me most of the day. Moral of the story is: errors are your friend - check the error logs. Getting a definite error is your biggest possible clue. When restarting apache it was telling me (via the apache error_log) that it couldn't load the module mysql.so because the file didn't exist in /usr/local/php4. Of course it didn't, since I just upgraded to PHP 5. Poking around a bit showed that the module was really in /usr/local/php/modules, so a quick edit to php.ini to set the correct location, and then another restart of apache, and everything was fine.
You wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure that out. I thought the yum install was the culprit. On the plus side I learned a bunch while sorting it out.
Anyway, outside of a few problems like that things are going very well. Should see some real progress this weekend.