PHP 5/Oracle 9i: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value error - Windows XP

Details:
Apache/1.3.33 (Win32) PHP/5.0.2
Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1
Oracle 9i (located remotely on Sun Solaris)
Errors:
Warning: ocilogon() [function.ocilogon]: OCISessionBegin: ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified in c:\program files\apache group\Apache\htdocs\eng\class\class.oci8hook.php on line 154
Warning: ocilogon() [function.ocilogon]: ociopen_server: ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error in c:\program files\apache group\Apache\htdocs\eng\class\class.oci8hook.php on line 154
Unable to connect to database
Question:
How do I set-up the NLS parameters on Windows XP to see a remoted Oracle 9i database?
Summary:
I do have Oracle client loaded on my Windows XP workstation, plus when I run phpinfo() on my local workstation, I do have Oracle support enhabled:
oci8:
OCI8 Support: enabled
Revision: $Revision: 1.257 $
Active Persistent Links: 0
Active Links: -6
Temporary Lob support: enabled
Collections support: enabled
Oracle:
Oracle Support: enabled
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this post.

user12009184 wrote:
can anyone help me to resolve the problem.=================================
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