doubt if it's the code.

Ummm ... off the wall suggestion here. This sounds something like my dial up isp would do for security purposes. have you tried putting in index.html files into each of the above suggested directories ??? wonder if your server doesn't like you creating files through a script.

But then again I could be entirely wrong. Eliot is much more knowledgable than I.

Good luck

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