on the /evergreen/Templates/evergreen page with sidebar.dwt.php page was the following code:
<?php require_once('../../webassist/framework/framework.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('../../webassist/framework/library.php'); ?>
on the /evergreen/adminLogin.php was this code:
<?php require_once('webassist/framework/framework.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('webassist/framework/library.php'); ?>
the first set was pointing to the /webassist/framework/ directory, the second was pointing to the /evergreen/webassist/framework/ since they where pointing to separate locations, it was including them both and causing the error.
i edited the template code to:
<?php require_once('../webassist/framework/framework.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('../webassist/framework/library.php'); ?>
so both pages would point to the same location.