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hello there, here's my little problem i hope someone can help me out:

I have downloaded the latest copy of civicrm here:
civicrm-1.7.beta.9379-joomla-php5 (part of an joomla 1.0.12 fresh install)

My (new) host has the following software versions:

- Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.2.0;
- MySQL 4.1.21-standard

I proceed with the manual install, ie, copying the zip file up and extracting through cPanel into a sub of the admin installer component folder successfully;

I then install civicrm - installation completes and tells me it is successful (all looks good from the backend) - then, when i attempt to go into any of the civiCRM menus from the admin backend i get this error:

"Fatal error: Cannot access protected property CRM_Core_Session::$_key in /home/agedcare/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Session.php on line 81"

  Now, i thought it may have been due to sessions unwritable, so i logged a call with the host who setup a writable folder - i check the listing of directory permissions through the backend of joomla, and it now lists the sessions folder as writable... hmmm... not sure where else to go - the host doesn't want to compromise his other customers that are all using MySQL 4.1, as i asked about using V. 5 but that doesn't look like it's an option.

I must be cursed - i used to host on a win server and (unsuccessfully) tried to install civicrm - i gave up.  lobo tried to help me at that stage, but it was too difficult.  I'd like to think i have a good chance at this with my new (non windows) host provider...

- has anyone any clues into how i might get around this please?