Okee dokee. I finally got back around to messing with this... I upgraded to 2.9 and in the administration everything seems alright but now I can't upload pictures.

My photos and thumbs folders are both chmod 777 and under:

/uploads/photos
/uploads/thumbs

I ran the album checker and received this message as the only problem:

PHP directive 'upload_tmp_dir': Error: upload_tmp_dir (/upload_tmp) is not writable nor readable .

Can you tell me what I have goofed now?

Thanks for all your help!