OMFG. I JUST FIXED MY SERVER.

so libgd wasn't loading... it couldn't find something. someone suggested i download an rpm for libgd 1.8, but i'm not smart enough to do that. so i created a symlink between libgd.so.1 and libgd.so.1.8.4 (which i do have!) and ... my server parses php files once again. (ln -s /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8.4 /usr/lib/libgd.so.1)

dag. i'm getting pretty good at this server stuff!!!!!!!! HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!

ok.