FCKeditor - No such file or directory

Apologies for posting on this topic which has been wokred over but I'm unable to Upload Images using FCKeditor. I started with the latest version (2.2?) and have now started from scratch with v2.0

Filesystem
Drupal is located in the root of my site, not a subfolder
/files (777)
/files/images (777)
/files/flash (777)
/files/media (777)

I updated fckconfig.js by disabling the default ASP and setting like so (straight from the readme)

 FCKConfig.LinkBrowserURL = FCKConfig.BasePath + "filemanager/browser/default/browser.html?Type=Image&Connector=/modules/fckeditor/ssip/connector.php"
       FCKConfig.ImageBrowserURL = FCKConfig.BasePath + "filemanager/browser/default/browser.html?Type=Image&Connector=/modules/fckeditor/ssip/connector.php"

My properties.inc

 */

function _fck_connector_properties() {
	$properties = array();
	
	// The file system path separator (\) windows, (/) unix
	$properties['path_separator'] = '/';
	
	// The Context Path property represents a web application, which is run 
	// within a particular virtual host. If you specify a context path of an 
	// empty string (''), you are defining the default web application for 
	// this Host.
	// $properties['context_path'] = '';
	$properties['context_path'] = '';
	
	// The default resource types list
	$properties['resource_list'] = array('File', 'Image', 'Flash', 'Media');
	
	// resource type paths (absolute path under the context_path)
	// These directories must exists in the current file system and have
	// read and write permissions
	$properties['File']   = '/files';
	$properties['Image']  = '/files/images';
	$properties['Flash']  = '/files/flash';
	$properties['Media']  = '/files/media';
	
	return $properties;
}
?>

FCK loads fine and I can edit content, but when I try to insert an image the image browser shows a drop down for " / " with no subfolders available, and no contents (current files) displayed.

The error log from the SSIP folder says the directories don't exist.

[11-Dec-2005 14:26:17] PHP Warning:  opendir(/files/images/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/northbro/public_html/modules/fckeditor/ssip/core.inc on line 116
[11-Dec-2005 14:26:17] PHP Warning:  readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/northbro/public_html/modules/fckeditor/ssip/core.inc on line 117

and finally when I use the FCK connector test page, ALL scripting types (ASP, CFM...) except PHP gladly return a text file when click "get folders" or "get folders and files". PHP returns this error:

        This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
−
	<Connector>
<Error number="1" text="This connector is disabled. Please check the "editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/config.php" file"/>
</Connector>

So I went in and edited two lines in: editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/config.php
Changed False to True in anable and changed the file Path to /files/ from /userfiles/. Whats funky is all other script languages have the same default settings but work fine.

// SECURITY: You must explicitelly enable this "connector". (Set it to "true").
$Config['Enabled'] = true;

// Path to user files relative to the document root.
$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/files/' ;

This failed also... and led to a new error from the FCK test link

        This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Connector command="GetFolders" resourceType="File">
<CurrentFolder path="/" url="/files/File/"/>
<Folders/>
</Connector>

At which point I gave up......