code breaks when going from fedora to suse

A web site I have been running on fedora 4 in PHP5/Mysql4 broke when I moved it to suse 10.0 with the same basic versions; I can no longer upload to a known directory even though all permissions are set. i.e. (chmod 0777) the problem appears to be in the php configuration and/or the mysql privileges. I granted all on the database in question, but it will not properly perform a load data function. It deletes the table but does not reload the new version. I have looked at the php.ini files and they are not setting the config as output using phpinfo.php. I am not sure how these configuration settings are being set? I am also running with ISPConfig on the suse system. This is the major difference from the fedora system. Any help or ideas would be appreciated.