diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d5ab1b37..31c6eb29 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
 - Spellcheck UTF-8: The Secret To Character Encoding
 - Fix improper removal of the contents of elements with only whitespace. Thanks
   Eric Wald for reporting.
+- Fix broken test suite in versions of PHP without spl_autoload_register()
 . Add verbose mode to command line test runner, use (--verbose)
 . Turn on unit tests for UnitConverter
 . Fix missing version number in configuration %Attr.DefaultImageAlt (added 3.2.0)
diff --git a/tests/index.php b/tests/index.php
index 9ed3d8bc..a9446e4f 100755
--- a/tests/index.php
+++ b/tests/index.php
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ if (!SimpleReporter::inCli()) {
     $AC['php'] = $php;
 }
 
+// initialize and load HTML Purifier
+// use ?standalone to load the alterative standalone stub
+if ($AC['standalone']) {
+    require '../library/HTMLPurifier.standalone.php';
+} else {
+    require '../library/HTMLPurifier.path.php';
+    require 'HTMLPurifier.includes.php';
+}
+require '../library/HTMLPurifier.autoload.php';
+require 'HTMLPurifier/Harness.php';
+
 // Shell-script code is executed
 
 if ($AC['xml']) {
@@ -100,17 +111,6 @@ if ($AC['flush']) {
     htmlpurifier_flush($AC['php'], $reporter);
 }
 
-// initialize and load HTML Purifier
-// use ?standalone to load the alterative standalone stub
-if ($AC['standalone']) {
-    require '../library/HTMLPurifier.standalone.php';
-} else {
-    require '../library/HTMLPurifier.path.php';
-    require 'HTMLPurifier.includes.php';
-}
-require '../library/HTMLPurifier.autoload.php';
-require 'HTMLPurifier/Harness.php';
-
 // Now, userland code begins to be executed
 
 // setup special DefinitionCacheFactory decorator