Well... it would seem to me that if it's a file permission problem, that the problem is easily solved, although time-consuming and disk-crunching... change the file permissions. As for those people who don't have backups of their own stuff because they believe Renderosity would be here forever and ever, welcome to the Internet. Servers come, servers go. Even hard drives can be corrupted and files go missing from time-to-time. Backup? Sure. But why complain about the backup of their system if you can't even backup your own? Not to sound like a pain in the ass and a bitch, but if you don't have the sense enough to keep a record of your own stuff on some disk that is within easy reach of yourself, then you don't really have the right to complain about the file keeping of other free sites that do the hosting for you. I've lost countless websites in the past due to the host just up and leaving. Is it the end of the world? No. Why? Because I also have my website on my computer! Of course, I have like 6 hard drives... so I can do that. But since my website isn't that big to begin with (I believe around 3 megs), I think I can afford the space. If you're afraid of this happening again, then you've learned something through this experience (I hope). Worried you can't store your own stuff on your own computer? Don't have extra CD's, DVD's or FLOPPIES laying around? Upload it to multiple servers. They're pictures for crying out loud. 99.9% of the free servers out there accept pictures. Ok, that's enough of my ranting and raving about the issue... have a good holiday.