Description:
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Your note contains a bit of text that will result in a line that is too long, even after using wordwrap().

This is getting mighty annoying.
I have edited my post some 10 times and broken it below 40 chars per line.
Still no good.

Sorry you cannot Cut off a function name when I write a php function name in the screen without the code becoming illegible/unreadable after post.

This "feature" should pass to the far away neverland as 96% of webbrowsers are now using in excess of 1024 pixel resolution width, don't you think?

Test script:
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What about this for an example... 

Intending to use it in passing a "semi-guaranteed"
properly seeded random number to a client, then to 
capture input from the user which must be encrypted 
client side before being sent to the server again 
  a) during the same session and, 
  b) within a set time limit.

for more reading also see:
  AES Rijndael enc/dec routines for javaScript
  developed and tested by Herbert Hanewinkel, 
  http://www.hanewin.net/encrypt/aes/aes.htm

<?php
/*
calling the function, prepping the data to send to 
the client... , who then uses it in a javascript 
implementation of AES Encrypt.
*/

function SHA256($str, $keyval=""){
    if ($keyval!==""){//not null or empty
        $sHash = mhash(Constant('MHASH_SHA256'),$str, $keyval);
    }else{
        $sHash = mhash(Constant('MHASH_SHA256'),$str);
    }
    // same as Binary 2 Hex conversion
    return implode(unpack('H*',$sHash),'');
}

/*---------------------------------------------------
Radomizing the random data with fixed data for 
the user and location If return value maximum 
is set to zero (0) the function uses mt_getrandmax
If both retMin and retMax is zero (0) the function 
uses mt_rand w.o. limits
*----------------------------------------------------*/
function local_prgn($retMin = 0, $retMax = 0){
// first get the session id of the request session
  $sSrv = session_id(); 

// the following is valid only on the current server
  $sSrv = implode(unpack($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'].$sSrv),'');

// the following applies only to the requesting client
  $sReq = implode(unpack($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']),'');

// the following generates a 256 bit hash
  $sSeed = SHA256($sSrv,$sReq); // get a SHA256 seed based on the current values

// get a random value based on the uniqueness of the seed above
    mt_srand($sSeed); // seed the random num gen

// some error handling and checking
    if ($retMin > $retMax){ 
	// if wrong order of range values
        $rx = $retMax; $retMax = $retMin; $retMin = $rx; // swap
    } else if ($retMin == $retMax){    //meaningless range, not very random
        $retMin = 0; $retMax = 0; //ensure for next check in this range
    }
// select what we need to return
    if ((($retMax == 0)&&($retMax = mt_getrandmax))||($retMin==$retMax)){
        return mt_getrandmax();
    }else{
        return mt_getrandmax($retMin,$retMax);
    }
}


?>

Expected result:
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less bugs, more speed

Actual result:
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to many dumb bugs