I agree with both of you. Clearly, it has to be a permissions issue, but it won't let me change them. And it keeps doing the same thing for every new photo I upload.Yes I think Elijah is right as I mentioned before it is proabably a rights / owenership thing. also do not forget that Image Manager needs to be able to right the thumbnail images.
I currently have all of my sites on a VPS. I have no idea what a local server is or how to set that up. I'm not as computer savy as you guys!Perhaps slloyd, you should consider a local server on your machine for development and testing? It makes life a lot easier