PHP4 uses wrong mysql client version

Hours and hours of tests and searches on the net have been fruitless. Here is the problem:

I have installed PHP 4.4.4 on my Windows XP box, and configured it through Apache 2.0.59 and with MySQL 5.0.17.

Everything works great, except that when I run phpinfo() it tells me that the mysql client API version is 3.23.49. This causes issues with authentication (different password functions) and other issues. I need to get this to work with my version of MySQL. Surely PHP 4 isn't doomed to being used only with 3.23.49??

You are probably having this problem - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html

See the recommended solutions listed at the link.

If you can or want to use PHP5, your problems would be solved as the client library is a high enough version. I suspect that the "problem" has not been corrected in the Windows binary version of PHP4 as both php and mysql want everyone to migrate to using PHP5 and MySQL5.

Thanks, I think this may work. However, I have installed PHP4 because I am trying to run both PHP4 and PHP5 on two different ports at the same time, but accessing the same Database. I'm not sure what the options are in that case.