that shouldn't screw up a [properly configured] php installation, but I do see your point.
On a side note, just so that people know before following Kenton's idea, that could WILL slow down the rendering of all pages, even ones that don't use autoit in them. By how much, I'm not sure, but I will definitely do some tests.
Also, changing that would break scripts that people have wrote, and while it's not that much of a pain to fix, I don't like doing that.
How about we plan on making that change in the next version I release. Until then, you're going to have to mod it yourself muttley