Site rendering corruption

[eluser]furnak[/eluser]
We've gone through most of the files, and all but one are not working, currently trying to determine the reason, the only thing that seems to be is that the files that cause the issue have file_get_contents to generate drop down elements from php scripts, trying to determine why it would cause this issue, but it seems that it's not a codeigniter issue now, but rather some peculiar other issue