SSI help using coppermine integrated with Invision Board

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I realize ssi is unsupported, but I have a question that I cannot figure out and I really would appreciate it if someone would help.  I have coppermine and my forum (invisionboard) integrated together and I am trying to add the "latest images added" function of ssi.php to the Forum Index page of my forum.  When I add the "include_once" command to include ssi.php, load the file, resync, then refresh the page, and error comes up that says Coppermine cannot connect to the database because no database was selected.  How can that be possible if without that line the forums work and even WITH that line my gallery works?  What do I need to change?