I SOLVED IT!
The default php.ini has the extension directory like this:
extension_dir = "./"
Now being a noob, I look up a couple lines and see
include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"
so I figure I should add a semi-colon and append my own extension
directory to extension_dir. But PHP doesn't like that it seems, the
correct way:
extension_dir = "F:\php\ext"
I can't believe you folks didn't see that :-)
Does this mean you can't have multiple paths for extension_dir?