Unable to load dynamic library wsf.dll

With some help from a friend, we managed to get our WSF script running if we access it via apache, HOWEVER we cannot invoke these scripts using the command line.

Some experimentation has yielded the following details:

1) Apache looks first in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin for ssleay and libeay. If it doesn't find them there, it attempts to use the ones in C:\winnt\system32.

2) Apache works when it loads these versions of the DLLs:
SSLEAY32.DLL, 197KB, 1/17/2008
LIBEAY32.DLL, 1,045KB, 1/17/2008

3) If I replace those DLLS with the smaller versions dated 6/25/2008, then I get an error when I try to restart Apache. A dialog pops up titled "Error" that says "The requested operation has failed". I looked in the error log at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs\error.log and found this:

[Sun Jul 27 15:38:19 2008] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal -- Restarting the server.
httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 119 of C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/modules/mod_ssl.so into server: This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.  
[Sun Jul 27 15:38:19 2008] [notice] Child 956: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Sun Jul 27 15:38:19 2008] [warn] (OS 995)The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.  : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sun Jul 27 15:38:19 2008] [warn] (OS 995)The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.  : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Sun Jul 27 15:38:20 2008] [notice] Child 956: Released the start mutex
[Sun Jul 27 15:38:21 2008] [notice] Child 956: All worker threads have exited.
[Sun Jul 27 15:38:21 2008] [notice] Child 956: Child process is exiting

Switching the DLLs back lets me successfully restart.

4) Trying to invoke PHP from the command line will not work at all when using the larger DLLS that work with Apache (dated 1/17/2008). The script simply will not run. There are no errors and there is no output from a 'hello world' script.

5) I can invoke my hello world script from the command line when using these DLLs:
SSLEAY32.DLL, 185KiB, 6/25/2008
LIBEAY32.DLL, 973KiB, 6/25/2008
HOWEVER the output of any script is always preceded by these errors

C:\crs\d>php test.php
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Program Files\PHP\
ext\php_openssl.dll' - This application has failed to start because the applicat
ion configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this proble
m.
 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Program Files\PHP\
ext\wsf.dll' - This application has failed to start because the application conf
iguration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
 in Unknown on line 0

Additionally, my WSF script complains about failing to find certain classes:

PHP Fatal error:  Class 'WSPolicy' not found in C:\Program Files\Apache
Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\rodc\wsdl.php on line 15

I just don't understand why the same version of PHP will run a script fine using apache but the command line version of php somehow fails. It's also puzzling to me that php via apache can use a pair of DLLs and the command line simply cannot.

I have tried 3 variants of these DLLs on my computer in various places and I have alternately tried all 3 in the system 32 folder. None of them work. The versions dated 6/25/2008 result in the error about php_openssl.dll and wsf.dll, but the script otherwise runs -- i.e., I can actually see my 'hello world' output.

The other versions, dated 1/17/2008 and 11/8/2007, do not work. When I try to invoke my script, there is a pause while PHP is being initialized but the script will not run. There is no output and no error. Might this be related to CRT or KEY files not being found by CLI php?