[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by NightWalk8r

wasnt this optional?? why cant i leave it blank?? o_O
PLEASE HELP
TIA =)

It is optional and you should be able to leave it blank. Either you accidentally typed something else, or there's something about file and directory permissions that I've overlooked.

Can you
a) PM me the output from a phpinfo() (normal vb admincp, down the bottom in the maintenance section). In particular the setting of open_basedir is important.
b) Try setting this to a valid directory, e.g. admincp. It won't cause any difficulties because there are no icons there.
c) If all fails and this error message is a problem to you - actually it shouldn't matter because all that will happen is that no icons appear - find the following code (line 2880 in release 1.41):

PHP Code:

if ($handle = @opendir($newsetting)) {
    closedir($handle);
} else {
    $error = 1;
} 


and simply comment out the $error = 1 line (put // at the start of the line).

Please let me know what you find.