php-mcrypt 5.3 installation on Godaddy VDS CentOS5.6

Please let us know how you installed PHP (using Yum or source code) and how you are trying to install php-mcrypt. If the php is installed using YUM please give the output of

rpm -qa | grep php

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Also please let us know the current PHP version installed on VDS.

Here the output i got:

php53-mbstring-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-pdo-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-imap-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-5.3.3-13.el5_8
psa-php53-configurator-1.6.2-cos5.build110121128.16
php5-ioncube-loader-4.0.14-12042719
psa11-php-fakepackage-11.0.9-cos5.build110121128.16
php53-gd-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-cli-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-sqlite2-5.3.2-11070811
php53-common-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-xml-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-mysql-5.3.3-13.el5_8

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On my server currently using PHP Version 5.3.3

I did try install php-mcrypt through the following command the mCrypt extension working fine but it upgrade my current PHP environment to 5.4 there are 29 websites not working on 5.4

yum install mcrypt*
yum install mhash*
yum install php-mcrypt*
yum install php-mhash*

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Do you have any kind of a test bed for this application?  We do not want you to upgrade a production site without verification!

Yes, I had. Please kindly advice if you have any resolution to the above issue.

Yes, I had a test bed? Or yes, I had upgraded a production system without prior testing?

there are 29 websites not working on 5.4

Is there any symptom of failure?  Any messages or data base corruption?  Anything at all to tell us what "not working" means?