Hi JP,
Are you getting any error messages, either on the screen or in your log files? If a DAO is failing to load, it may indicate an out-of-memory problem (see php.ini's "memory_limit" directive, which should be at least 12M) or, if you've made modifications, a typo in the code.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
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