Help with ice and PHP5

I'm using XAMPP version 1.7.4, PHP version 5.3.5 and ice version 3.4.1 all on windows xp professional. I can see that my ice is installed correctly because ice is in my phpinfo(). I'm trying to open a php file and I get this message Fatal error: Call to undefined function Ice_loadProfile() in C:\xampp\htdocs\icedemo.php on line 11. I looked at this http://www.zeroc.com/forums/help-center/2356-problems-installation-icephp.html post were a guy was having a similar problem except on linux. My problem is I can't change the extension_dir = <ICE_HOME>/lib entry in my php.ini like Mes was talking about in the post because if I do it doesn't load php_ice.dll and I get all kinds of errors when apache comes up. I tryed copying the contents of the lib folder into my C:\xampp\php\ext folder and that didn't work either. Then I tryed copying all the dll files from inside of the ext folder into the lib folder and changing the entry in the php.ini file accordingly and still got the same error trying to load the php file in a browser. Any help or advice will be most appreciated.