I tried this, but was told I wasn’t the owner of the folders and couldn’t change the permissions.
I tried to chmod 775 on my folders (I can’t import an old blog into my update folder, nor can I insert images into a post), but as I drill down to the subfolders in update (2009 –> 06) I see that I’m not the “owner” of these folders (httpd is) and my attempt to chmod is denied.