Well, looks like I was able to solve this one myself – but for anyone else’s benefit, here’s what I did to resolve.
Using Plesk 8.3 and installed wordpress 2.7 for the first time clean from the download site here at www.ads-software.com. As discussed above, the error message kept coming up when trying to upload media files using wordpress dashboard. In looking into my httpdocs file using Plesk File manager, I noticed that the FTP transfer to my server did not include a /uploads directory in the wp-content directory. so, i created the directory /uploads and changed the read/write/execute settings to check marks for owner, group, and others. I tried changing them one at a time but continued to get the error message until all were checked.
This resolved the issue but I would, however, like anyone’s comments regarding whether my site is now less secure and any other workarounds you may recommend. Thanks
