Thanks, I thought that might have been it - but It's not... I wrote a support ticket and - now - I'm able to use mkdir as long as the Directories are chmoded to 755+ :) thanks to all who helped! In a message dated 8/8/2005 2:16:12 A.M. Central Standard Time, hitek@xxxxxxx writes: >More than likely, your host has safe mode on. Safe mode is a pain in the >ass if you need to create directories or write to files, but seems to be >the defacto standard for shared hosts using php.