a simple problem

At a guess I would say your host has some security settings that are causing some grief, can you create a new file info.php with the below content and put it somewhere we can look at it?

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

https://www.rapnews.co.uk/wp-content/themes/default/info.php

Any ideas guys?

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????????? PLEASE SOMEONE I BEG U!

For the next person who runs across this (and possibly only for WP 1.5.x) try this:

Add a new line 1 to your wp root’s index.php file:

1 <?php include('rotator.php'); ?>
2 <?php
3 /* Short and sweet */
4 define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
5 require('./wp-blog-header.php');
6 ?>

And put rotator.php and images.ini in your wp root as well. This was the only way I could get the rotator to work when using <?php showImage(); ?> from (an embedded location) within a theme.php file.