Elliot Haughin Twitter library no worky on EngineHosting

[eluser]Shane Robinson[/eluser]
We just tried to go live with our first CI project, InHawaiiNow.com at EngineHosting (love them!) and found EH doesn’t' yet support PHP 5.2.x which is required by Elliot's excellent library for it's json_decode support.

So, we moved the app to one of our Host Gator accounts.

Chris at Engine Hosting went above and beyond and did a bit of research and found this CI JSON helper in the wiki:
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/JSON_Helper/

Being new to CI (and the Twitter API), I have no idea how, or if it's even possible to combine this Helper with Elliot's library so we can host at EH...

Anyone else using Elliot's Twitter library at EH? If so, how?

Thank in advance for any assistance.

-shane