PHP using ImageMagick install without root access

[jmmygoggle]

I came across help for non-root access installation of ImageMagick
here:
http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...ht=imagemagick
and here:
http://www.techimo.com/photopost/magicknoroot.html

I need ImageMagick installed on my webhost account/livesite for a PHP photo album that I'm adapting from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yappa/

My winME/apache/PHP/ImageMagick test config on my machine at homes runs everything fine. I followed instructions at the links above hoping to install ImageMagick on my webhost account. The PHP scripts for the photo album are working but the image generation/converting does not seem to be.

Do I need to install PerlMagick as well, even though I'm using PHP to call the ImageMagick convert program? (no Perl is utilized in the photo album) Is PerlMagick the only way to install and utilize ImageMagick without having root access?
The install of ImageMagick seems to have proceeded correctly and I found the path to the convert program.

I'm new to this so any advice or tests/quick checks I can run would be helpful.

ALSO: ( I did not install jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz since info.php stated the gd has JPG Support enabled. -is this an incorrect association?I do not know commands to check for headerfiles jpeglib.h and do not have access to /usr/include or /usr/local/include )

thanks. jmmygoggle