I have an open bug submission for this subject; and even tried to append to
the documentation about the subject that you just mentioned (much of Safe
Mode not working under Win32 because of ownership issues.)
Rasmus Lerdorf suggested that I submit the bug report, and as far as I know
it is still
I am having a similar problem with Windows2000, IIS5, and the latest stable
PHP. I don't believe Safe Mode works in a Windows environment anyways,
because it does not understand Windows permissions as far as ownership.
However, I was told to use the open_basedir option which in php.ini. You
set