Updater says no CURL support, but host insists it is there

Hi,

I have recently started to use a new hosting provider for my websites, and the new host is a dedicated Joomla hosting provider.

Previously, the old hosting worked fine for the update facility within EasyBlog however on the new hosting it gives me an error about missing CURL support so I have to do a manual update by downloading the latest installation package from StackIdeas.com

The new hosting provider insists that CURL is compiled within php and is loading correctly - can anyone suggest what may be causing this issue, as I much prefer to use the updater routine as I have a number of EasyBlog instances to manage.

Thanks,

Chris