If anyone can tell me how I can get a good, working, mcrypt.dll compiled so that PHP is installed with the mcrypt extension working in Windows as it does in Linux etc then then I may think about becoming a monk or something. 
I believe you need cygwin or something to compile it - if you have a step by step guide how to do this or someone has a pre-compiled dll then that would be amazing and I would be forever in someone's debt
Anyone????
TIA