$my_local_path needs to be absolute, rather than relative to your webroot.

now what permissions should be set? Without giving too many

g+rw so apache can read/write the files dir, just make sure your user is in the www group. If that works, start cutting back perms until it stops working? :)

Custom uploader 

Sorry to hi-jack this a bit, but didn't wanna make a new thread for a little Q. How do I set the username/password for my own site's uploader. I've got .htaccess username password combo for the upload dir which holds my upload.php? On a side note, would be awesome if you guys would add FTP instead of .php just coz of the easiness of it. I just found this program and uninstalled ZScreen coz of this. This is so much lighter and more efficient, no lag at all. Ty.

@Jason Brian Merrill: thanks, now it works for me too :)