| Posted by James on 06/13/16 11:05 
I *really* appreciate everybody's previous input. I may be a highly experienced programmer, but am relatively new to PHP.
 
 OK, I figured out what was going on. Google enough and read enough and
 the light goes on finally.
 
 The problem was not the "require_once" but a scoping problem.
 Specifically, I was calling "require_once" /from within a function/.
 
 Bad! Bad! Bad!
 
 The included source file was also including other files... thus the
 global class instance was just fine... it was simply hidden due to
 scoping rules.
 
 Yikes! I was really pulling my hair out when entire global functions
 were "disappearing" due to the screwed up scope.
 
 I finally figured out the problem in the "User Contributed Notes"
 section of the PHP manual (http://www.php.net/language.variables.scope).
 
 THANK YOU again...
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