long story short- some spammers found an "open access" folder on one of my subdirectories and used it to send 1,000s of fraudelent citibank emails. so just make sure your permissions are never 777.

anyway, as a result, I had to delete my "media" folder - so all my images are gone. I tried to add back the media folder, but now am getting this error message:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(/home/hospita/public_html/media/fredlee.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/hospita/public_html/admin/b2upload.php on line 148

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/php92Kus8' to '/home/hospita/public_html/media/fredlee.jpg' in /home/hospita/public_html/admin/b2upload.php on line 148
Couldn't upload your file to: /home/hospita/public_html/media/fredlee.jpg

any ideas?