Great plugins but some problems

Great free plugins and perfect for back-ups but there was a problem with both s3 and dropbox giving me errors when setting backups up. After hours I came across this article http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-s3-service-api-access-denied-when-using-php-53-or-54?replies=4 and figured out the solution for s3 and another similar article for dropbox. Now everything works, but wish I didn’t have to go through that!