Was about to say, if it's a directory to be uploaded to, it should be chmodded 777

Hey Ruben thanks!!! We activated you so please feel free to bang around in the vintagerace forum and give suggestions.. specially if you like vintage race cars! Jack, my boyfriend who I'm setting this up for was the technical director for Sportscar Vintage Racing Association for many years. Lots of his racing buddies are signing up!

I'm not sure I follow your comment on turning off the folders.. I'll go look at that again. There are still a ton of things that I"m not sure about!!

I haven't done unix stuff in quite some time, until 3 days ago anyway so I'm being a weenie and using Filemanager to change permissions.. rather than chmod. I'm so friggin' scared of messing something up..

Ok I'm pretty much clueless about this comment. I don't know how to turn off indexing on the folders. I also haven't even begun considering the topic of backups yet. I'm assuming the servers are backed up...

Normally a host does back up the server but not the users files for your use for free.

The time to learn to make a backup is before you have a problem not after.

The indexing can usually be turned off in the control panel your host provides.
Or you could just simply upload a blank index.html page to each of those folders. If you take a peek in the forum sub folders where the scripts are you will see a blank index.html page in each folder. That is what they are there for to stop people from viewing your script files and start causing problems.