i have kept up with all the post on the forums, including the sticky on the troubleshooting forum. none of the suggestions have worked. after creating the suggested .htacces file the upload error message has changed to:
Unable to create directory /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2008/04. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
i’m on an Apache Server 1.3.41 (Unix) This was a clean install of WP 2.5 with a new DB.