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As many of you know we have recently updated many of our shared hosting servers to php 5 with phpSuExec enabled.
It's phpSuexec, not PHP5, that requires the use of php.ini files to set PHP parameters. .htaccess files can still be used to change Apache settings, but the .htaccess files cannot use the php_value or php_flag directives.
Unlike an .htaccess file, a php.ini file does not apply to subdirectories. Each subdirectory must have its own php.ini file. The only alternative is to convince your host to make the change globally via the system php.ini.