hello again...
I think I've cracked it now... when looking at the php.ini file, I realised that the extension directory was set to the same directory as the php.ini itself. In my case, the extensions were not in that directory, thus the error message. If you have the same problem, you can either move the .dll file to the php.ini directory, or you change the extension path in php.ini.
Hope this solves it for you!
/nina