Unfortunately I haven't yet found a _short_ script that reproduces
the bug. It seems it will only crash in special cases in which you
have a minimum number of included files and functions... still
trying to get it to the minimum crashsize :)

But so far the problem is:
script a includes a file b with function c
file b includes a file d with class description e
function c creates a new object f of class e and returns it.

now PHP will crash when it creates this object if it has a function 
that takes a variable by reference. But _only_ when I have included
some other files as wel.. (which don't have anything to do with the
code that produces the crash...)

sorry if this sounds vage, I'm still trying to find a minimal script..
if I don't succeed I'll just have to send the whole bunch i guess..

(BTW,is there anyway to update this bugreport later?)