David Mintz wrote: > I am dissatisfied with CentOS' conservatism -- I guess it's not for me > -- but installing another distro based on a hunch that it might help > seems like overkill, doesn't it? > > What would you do? I'd configure yum to use a repository that has PHP 5.2 for CentOS, http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/