XML Convertor broken for some reason...

[Pc_Madness]

Grumble, ok, here comes a pile of code that I picked up from PHP.net

    function &last(&$array) {
                error_reporting(E_ALL);
        if (!count($array)) return null;
        end($array);
        return $array[key($array)];
    }

    function myParseXML(&$vals, &$dom, &$lev) {
                error_reporting(E_ALL);
        do {
            $curr = current($vals);
            $lev = $curr['level'];
            
            switch ($curr['type']) {
                case 'open':
                    if (isset($dom[$curr['tag']])) {
                        $tmp = $dom[$curr['tag']];
                        if (!@$tmp['__multi'])
                            $dom[$curr['tag']] = array('__multi' => true, $tmp);
                        array_push($dom[$curr['tag']], array());
                        $new =& last($dom[$curr['tag']]);
                    } else {
                        $dom[$curr['tag']] = array();
                        $new =& $dom[$curr['tag']];
                    }
                    next($vals);
                    //REMOVED A Pointer
                    myParseXML($vals, $new, $lev);
                    break;
                case 'cdata':
                    break;
                case 'complete':
                    if (!isset($dom[$curr['tag']]))
                        $dom[$curr['tag']] = $curr['value'];
                    else {
                        if (is_array($dom[$curr['tag']])) 
                            array_push($dom[$curr['tag']] , $curr['value']);
                        else
                            array_push($dom[$curr['tag']] = array($dom[$curr['tag']]) , $curr['value']);
                    }
                    break;
                case 'close':
                    return;
            }
        } while (next($vals)!==FALSE);
    }

    function MyXMLtoArray($XML) {
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
        
        $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
        xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $XML, $vals);
        xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
        reset($vals);
        
        $dom = array(); $lev = 0;
        
        myParseXML($vals, $dom, $lev);
        
        return $dom;
    } 

MyXMLToArray is the starting point, you pass it a string containing XML and its supposed to return a nice array that I can loop with. This code was working perfectly last year, and is now stuffed. :\ Any ideas as to why? It simple returns a blank page.. I've been using comments and I believe the cause is MyXMLParse, but not sure why...

If no-one can figure out what its doing wrong, perhaps some alternative code that works well... going to be a complete pain in the arse to re-write my script though if I have to go down that route