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With safe mode on?  Wow.  Your server is pretty well behaved, actually. 

Drat.  The only way to get this working is to give the avatars folder the exact same privileges as the pictures folder.  This requires use of the CHOWN command (rather than CHMOD), and I'm not quite sure how to do this without access to a shell.  I don't think it can be done within PHP or FTP at all.

You might have to ask a system administrator to do this for you.  Either safe mode needs to be turned off, or the avatars folder must have the same CHOWN value as the pictures folder.  What confuses me is how the board ever worked in the first place.

One last thing you can try is to delete the avatars folder from the server via FTP and make a new one in its place.  That will reset all permissions.  Then, try CHMODing the folder to 775, and if that doesn't work, then try 777.  I doubt that will fix it, though.  It depends how PHP's group access is configured on the server.

Ah, you have a server that locks you out of folders created by PHP.

Try downloading and running this file, and see if it works:  fixavatar

What it does it attempt to CHMOD the folder within PHP so it can be accessed by programs other than PHP (including FTP).  If that doesn't fix the file upload issue, it should at least allow you to change the folder and its contents via FTP.  That would allow us to try a few more things.

Safe mode is a real pain.  The short answer is that you cannot upload files to servers that have safe mode turned on.

Are you able to upload pictures with the "Upload" feature (not with the applets)?  If so, you may be able to change the permissions of the avatars folder to get around this limitation.  It doesn't always work, however.