Okay, I've tried it, and sure enough, the whatchamacallit "is not writeable" -- which means to me that we can't put anything into the attachments upload directory. Crap -- this means that I'll have to go to the SMF help site and see what they tell me. And we've got company coming to the house for dinner, and I need to finish making the trifle (dessert) that I started this morning. I'll get on it (the uploads directory, not the trifle).