Ioncube Installation Problems

hello,
I've done the exact steps as you've mentioned. I've downloaded the linux loaders x86-64 and have placed them in /home/username/ioncube folder

I then copied php5.cgi and php.ini from respective directories to my domain.com/cgi-bin

i edited the php.ini file and added the following line in it
zend_extension="/home/username/ioncube/ioncube_loader_5.2.so"

I then created domain.com/.htaccess file and placed the following lines in it:
AddHandler php-cgi .php
Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php5.cgi

Initially, i had messed up something and i was getting 500 internal server error. Now, following this procedure from the scratch has got me rid of that error but the actual purpose of getting the ioncube loaders running is still not achieved. the ioncube helper file still says i need loader

The error.log says this:
[Thu Oct 02 16:04:50 2008] [error] [client 116.71.179.234] Failed loading /home/username/ioncube/ioncube_loader_5.2.so: /home/username/ioncube/ioncube_loader_5.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Whereas i've checked that the /home/username/ioncube directory EXISTS and there IS a file ioncube_loader_5.2.so in it!

Any help to this would be appreciated.

Only thing I can suggest is that you re-re-recheck you have the correct loader.

I tried too and got NOTHING!
I tried contacting support, but they don't support... O.o
Wiki is the worst place to find help... It never works for me...
Now I will have to find someone or pay someone to dezended, or whatever the name is, so I can use the program.