any reasons you can think of the chdir() would not work ?

[Mutilated1]

Is there any reason you can think of that chdir($start); would crash my script ? I'm certain that $start is the right value, and I've used the identical code in another script.

[Viper_SB]

what do you mean by crash? does PHP crash? or do you get a parse error? or another error? paste the exact error you're getting.
also try print $start; to make sure you are getting what you're expecting

[Mutilated1]

OK, I figured out that it wasn't actually the chdir() that was crashing the script, it was that I forgot to chdir() back to the original directory before I went to the next part.

Nevermind, I've got it figured out now.

Thanks for the help.