Uploads in a directory OUTSIDE wordpress?

Hi

I need to set up my images and videos to be stored in a folder that’s OUTSIDE the wordpress folder.

So in my site, the images and WP folders are, respectively:

/home/site/www/uploads
/home/site/www/wp/..

The default uploads folder of course was /home/site/www/wp/wp-content/uploads, but this does NOT work for me.

I have CHMODed the uploads folder recursively to 777. And read the hell out of threads like this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-is-its-parent-directory-writable-by-the-server-uploading-images

I still get the error. What else?

Thanks!