[PHP] Time out Errors?

[Chris Anderson]

I have mayn scripts on a website that use MySQL connections for various tasks. 
Strangely sometimes a task will hit the timeout (30 sec), then work perfectly when I 
refresh. Or even work perfectly other times. I'm using Apache on Windows 98 and I'd 
never had this bug before. Would it be because I connect to MySQL so much? Should I 
use mysql_pconnect instead of normal connect to alleviate this? Any help would be 
appreciated