Installing Drupal

Fatal error: Dynamically loaded extensions aren't allowed when running in SAFE MODE. in /home/sim/public_html/site/drupal/includes/xmlrpc.inc on line 44

how can i fix this?

I'd like the contents of my homepage to default to a specific site page. Since the site pages don't show up in the pull down list I'm looking for solutions.

One thought is to overide the site links in conf.php, but I guess I am hoping there is a better way.

Cheers,
- Joe

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"Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /disk/www/vsites/mac/htdocs/includes/conf.php:62) in /disk/www/vsites/mac/htdocs/modules/user.module on line 5"

I got the register_globals issue fixed, but now I get this at the top of every page on the site. Suggestions? Looked through earlier forum entries but couldnt find anyone with this issue running UNIX.

(Solaris 9, Apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.2.3, everything compiled from scratch - no packages used)

Fatal error: Dynamically loaded extensions aren't allowed when running in SAFE MODE. in /home/sim/public_html/site/includes/xmlrpc.inc on line 44

any body help me?