I apologize for wasting even more space here. The problem was easily 
solved by the same stupidity that caused it. I was working with a new 
php.ini file for which .html files were not specified to be parsed by the 
PHP engine.

If you're reading this thank you and sorry for your time!

> I'm having a strange problem where the "->" in "$this->" is closing the 
> php tag and causing any php after "->" to appear in the html output.
> 
> I'm running PHP 4.1.1 on Apache 1.3.23; it's new stuff.
> 
> Any ideas???