BTW, for the record, I've had some good experiences with
Blue Tree Host which is owned by a colleague of mine that I've worked with for several years.
Comes with PHP 5.2, MySQL5, Apache2, ImageMagick 6.0.1 and IonCube and Zend Optimizer are both installed as well.
DirectAdmin is the CP and it has PHPMyAdmin integrated for db maintenance, and they also allow multiple domain aliases which most others charge you to use (they also have a package that allows you to host numerous domains as well).