OK thanks to the help of people here
http://drupal.org/node/41288
I have FCKEditor working happily on my test XAMP server on 4.7.
I'm using TinyMCE and Img_assits on my live server and they work perfectly but i think, after playing around with FCKEditor, my members may prefer the intergration of image uploading with this editor instead.
Anyway i'm stumped on paths to set to get the upload of images working and really could do with a little help.
I've updated my fckconfig.js as per instructions with the following
FCKConfig.LinkBrowserURL = FCKConfig.BasePath + "filemanager/browser/default/browser.html?Type=Image&Connector=[context_path]/modules/fckeditor/ssip/connector.php"
FCKConfig.ImageBrowserURL = FCKConfig.BasePath + "filemanager/browser/default/browser.html?Type=Image&Connector=[context_path]/modules/fckeditor/ssip/connector.php"
and tried editing my properties.inc file to reflect where on the server my image directories are. But no matter what i do i get an XML request error 404 not found box come up when trying to browse the server.
I've set my $properties['path_separator'] = '\'; as its a windows machine and tried both
$properties['context_path'] = '\apache\xampp\htdocs';
$properties['context_path'] = '\';
$properties['context_path'] = '';
My images folder is set to
$properties['Image'] = ''\files\images;
No matter what i try i cannot get to see the images, create directories or upload images.