erm, yes, thats what happened!
unfortunatly, i was away in good ole newry (gah, realtives) in northern ireland at the time, and sommat managed to **** itself up, reverting to php 4.0.1 without mysql or sommat ghey like that. Apache was reverted to a backup copy as a temporary measure untill i got back tonight. At which time i took the chance to update apache and php a bit with a fresh compile.
All should be working, yay \o/