I finally figured out why imagemagick wasn't working properly in my windows 2K development environment.

It was simple: I needed to put the path in single quotes so the backtics wouldn't be replaced by PHP at runtime.

I put the executable in c:\imagemagick, so the correct path looks like this:

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = 'c:\imagemagick\convert.exe';

Thanks to everyone who offered their help and input on this.

Kip Rainey