Newbie help - getting PHP 5.2.0 to work with Apache 2.2.4 on Windows Server 2003

["Bryan Garmon" <b.garmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out what is wrong with my web 
server configuration.

This is a new server build with with no previous PHP or Apache installations 
on the server.

I'm downloaded and installed Apache 2.2.4 then downloaded the PHP 5.2.0 Zip 
Package Windows Binaries from http://us3.php.net/downloads.php

I followed step by step the manual installation process for PHP 5.2.0 using 
the installation instructions found here:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php

then being new to .php I visited:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php

When I try to open the .PHP file referenced in example 1, directly on the 
server using
Internet Explorer 7, the IE file download wizard dialog box pops up and 
prompts me to either "open or save" the file, I choose "open," and instead 
of opening, the same dialog box pops back up. It's an infinite loop until I 
choose cancel.

Why is IE 7 not able to open the file?

So I installed Firefox 2 on the server and the php example file loads 
properly.

So PHP is working right? I'm not quite sure. So I follow Example 2-2:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

The behavior is the same in IE7 with the dialog box just looping, but in 
Firefox I end up with a blank screen trying to load the phpinfo.

So Looking at the PHP FAQ 
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.blankscreen

It tells me something is wrong with the server configuration (not exactly 
helpful).

Apache appears to be fine as my website that is hosted on it is loading 
fine. The website currently does not use PHP at all.

When I look at the error.log file for apache, each time the server is 
restarted I see the following entry:

[notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0 configured -- resuming normal 
operations

Does this mean PHP is working? I just don't understand what's not 
functioning that is preventing the phpinfo command from running.

I added 3 lines to the Apache httpd.conf file which are:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir c:/php/

I also added c:\php to the PATH Windows System Variable, and I also added a 
new system variable called PHPRC and it references c:\php

Any help or suggestions for fixing these problems would be greatly 
appreciated.