ZEND error after update

[dvdpa]

Hi

I have searched and come across several postings and have tried everything without success.

server is plesk 7.5.4 rhel3 and all I did was update sitebuilder using the updater. Apache failed to start after it installed and I found this error:
PHP Fatal error: [ionCube Loader] The Loader must appear in the php.ini file before other extensions in Unknown on line 0

I looked at the php.ini and found:
[Zend]
;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_extension = /usr/lib/ioncube/Ioncube_loader_lin_4.3.so
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.7
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.7
;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

I commented out the lines to get apache up.

I added the second line per a post, no help..
I checked and php.d/ioncube.ini already was commented out.

php -v displays
PHP 4.3.10 (cgi) (built: Dec 16 2004 13:42:39)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.0.10, Copyright (c) 2002-2005, by ionCube Ltd.


So is it working even though it looks commented out?

Thanks in advance for your help

Chuck