right...I realize that it looks like it works, but doesn't really. The object is unserialized but then i get the following errors complaining about the object not being what was expected.
Warning: Couldn't fetch DOMDocument in /home/jamesr/test_apache/htdocs/oat/dom/readNdisplay.php on line 66
Warning: Couldn't fetch DOMDocument in /home/jamesr/test_apache/htdocs/oat/dom/readNdisplay.php on line 68
Fatal error: Call to a member function item() on a non-object in /home/jamesr/test_apache/htdocs/oat/dom/readNdisplay.php on line 69
Thanks, sorry for not being clear.