I put my contributed drupal modules in modules/contributed. This doesn't seem to work with sIFR plugin.
I always get the error

| The sIFR library is in not installed correctly. Please download from http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ and place in Drupal's modules/render/ directory.

If I put my render folder into modules folder it works ok.
I think this should work wherever one put its render module.

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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
commented

What is the reason for installing your modules into a folder that will not work with many contrib modules?

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miguel commented

I have a dozen of contrib modules installed and none of them wasn't working due to this.
There once was a discusion to install the contrib modules in a separate folder to distinct core modules an contrib modules.

There are other users who recommend this:
http://drupal.org/node/106997#comment-185861

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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
commented

So you are following the installation handbook? (http://drupal.org/node/176044)

Contributed modules should be installed in sites/all/modules or another sub-folder of sites/ if you are setting up a multi-site installation.

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miguel commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Thanks for your hint :-I

This is much better then putting the modules into core.
I changed status to won't fix.