You only change the gallery and default folder under gallery to 777. The rest will take on what they are when adding pictures. The additional gallery items will be built from the default folder.

Unfortunately, it was not working that way. Not sure why, but it's sorted itself out now as when I recreated the gallery forum, it, as it was supposed to, created a new set of folders on the server with the correct permissions. Now I'm fighting getting rid of the one that was fubar'd.

Sounds like it was possibly created as the user that the webserver is running as and has it's default permissions. In that case, many times the user you are FTPing as doesn't have permission to delete it.

If it's on a shared server and you don't have permission to delete the folder then you'll probably need to create a script that deletes it (since it will run as the webserver user and will have the proper permissions). If it's just an empty directory, then you'd just create a script in the parent directory with something like:

I was able to go in via my cPanel and delete it. I've seen this happen before and it's always a pain in the rear to deal with it. Bottom line, though, both galleries are working as they should and I'm a happy camper. Well, I would be if I could get out in my motor home and really camp! LOL