haha agreed...basically in reference to this walkthrough:

The mcrypt extension is missing | PHP OS X Lion How to Install mcrypt

I cannot seem to advance past the "Compile mcrypt php Extension" because after I run the "/usr/bin/phpize" command and get the same output as the tutorial, i cannot then run the following "./configure" command and get a result saying that there is no such file or directory.

PHP -v 5.3.8
Apache -v 2.2.21
MySQL -v 5.5.22

Thanks