Installing Drupal

I have installed the Drupal software, created the database, and created a couple of user accounts. However, I am getting two php errors:

is_dir(): Stat failed for files/pictures (errno=13 - Permission denied) in /home/www/mysite/cms/includes/file.inc on line 85

and

mkdir(files/pictures): Permission denied in /home/www/columbusrabbit/cms/includes/file.inc on line 86

How do I fix these?

TIA

Sue

Have img assist working and it does display the image. However I would like to float the image right using CSS. Image-right has been added to the text field in the story in which the image appears. Below is the source code and all looks good.

I had installed Drupal 4.6.x a little while ago via Fantastico. Then my hosting company switched to a new server and I believe everything was switched over fine. Now, I've been going through the post-install Drupal admin set up and got this error when setting up blocks and RSS feeds (from the aggregator):

Hello all
mysql ver 3.23
php ver 4.3.2
drupal ver 4.5.2

I was very happy when my first drupal installation worked a version 4.5.2, so I thought I would do a second site. I copied the files from the first drupal director, created a new database, and edited the conf.php
My db_url is set as "nobody:passwd@localhost/dbname"

To the Point:

I have an account at HostPC.com, it uses phpMYAdmin for database control, as well an on site thing to upload Databases to.

My question is how do I creat the databases with phpmyadmin? I am stuck at this point, and yeah I know its the first step :P

whittaker@klis.com

Downloaded

drupal-4.6.2.tar.gz
php-5.0.4-Win32.zip
apache_2.0.54-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi
mysql-essential-4.1.12a-win32.msi

Windows 2000

Well since i bought a router I figured I could take one of my computers and create a site on it. By a friend's directions I got apache, php, mysql and got them working after much hassle. Though I couldn't get phpmyadmin working .. (sigh)

So then came the next phase of getting drupal to work. So I followed the install notes and had a few problems with the database thing registering the mysql file. I finally got that done and everything working . .and was playing in drupal. Though the thing is . . the addy was host/drupal . . I wanted a different name than drupal.

(uh oh ;) )

So like a fool I rename the DIR to something else. and change the settings file to direct to it . ..hmm database problem . ..okay I"ll try changing the privilegs and such. hmm .. that isn't working at all . .says it's already there. So I try changing it back to Drupal name .. .site comes back . . hmm now when I do something . .apache generates erros and windows closes it. So I decided to unzip a fresh batch of files into another dir and start over again. Got everything setup like before .. and fresh install site popped up for creating new user . . only again apache crashes after I do anything on the page. So I think something is really wrong with the accessing of mysql??? . . I have no real clue about mysql . . (and to an extent php and apache :P ) but I can only assume something is now going wrong with it. I had deleted the new site database and started fresh but it still didn't help . .it wouldnt' allow me to drop the drupal database though for some reason.