salvation 
Well it turned out that I didn't have all my paths set to the local versions of the PEAR DB. After working with a user forum and my hosting service - and still not being able to find a solution to my problem. I started combing everything and everything I could think of. Read at least 10 different papers on cron, the PEAR DB documentation that I thought could even remotely be related, the bug reports, some of the DB_DataObject docs and searched the PEAR general mailing list archives using multiple search parameters.
Finally in the PEAR general mailing list (searched using database)on about the 10th page I found a little string consisting of 3 emails. There I found out this little line of code:
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$db = DB::connect($dsn);
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if (PEAR::isError($db)) {
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}
getUserInfo().... never heard of that method. Add it to my code and next thing you know I am being told that the script can't find my mysql.php (local version isn't on the set path - normal version is denied because of a "base_dir restriction").
Finally I have something I can fix! Track and trace the various paths to the classes and eventually - It Runs!!!
Holy cow - talk about ignorance being a problem. Looked in the documentation for DB and DB_DataObject again for anything on that method. Can't find a single line about it. So if someone would be so kind to point me in the right direction - I would love to learn more about the solution to my headache.
