Flash Ecards Broken due to php upgrade?

Anyone here familiar with the Flash Ecard system that came from Flash-DB?

http://www.angelfire.com/film/21cent...sTutorial.html

I'd been using it for a while, but recently my host upgraded the php version to 5.3.17 I'm not sure if this broke something...
I'm able to create the e-card no problem. It sends the mail, the link to the card works... the typed message appears in the email just fine. It's just that the e-card itself isn't presenting the text. When I try to view it, an error is generated in my log:

File does not exist: dBText/.txt
Referer: http://www.hugclub.net/Ecard20.swf?EcardText=

I checked the dBText folder, it appears that texts are still being generated, so no problem there I don't think..

Register globals are on too... unless the following isn't correct? #php_flag register_globals 1 (in the .htaccess)

I dunno.. I'm revamping the site anyway, so I've got time to figure it out if anyone is willing to sit with me and do this thing ;) Here's one card in question:

http://www.hugclub.net/SelectCard.ph...845211&ENum=20

Good news, problem solved. suPHP5, different way to activate the register globals...

but.. I am hoping for help still, in reworking the code so that it doesn't require the register globals since they won't exist in newer versions (so i'm told)