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UpdateMembershipRecord.php gives Restricted access error

Joomla 1.5.14, CiviCRM 3.0.1
When running UpdateMembershipRecord.php, by entering the appropriate URL in my browser window (IE or Firefox), I see:

Updating .........................Restricted access
The Membership Status of my Members are not updated.

I believe I am passing the username and password of the Joomla SuperAdmin correctly. (If I change it the error changes to ERROR: Invalid username and/or password )
I am passing a site key
I have commented out lines 184 ~ 257 as I only want to do teh Membership Status update .

The permissions for civicrm.settings.php are 755 & the owner is teh account name, which is the same for the most of the other file arround it.
I looked at the files that UpdateMembershipRecord.php calls - civicrm.config.php; Config.php; MembershipLog.php; etc, and they are all 755 with the account name
I also tried looking for all files in the CiviCRM directory that had the error phrase 'Restricted access', to see if I could change the message slightly to narrow down where the problem was coming from, without any luck.
Also search the forum, but could not find anything applicable.

As any could coder can see from the above I have no idea what I am doing, but I have tried to see I could find an answer first.

Does anyone know why this error is happening?
Many thanks is advance

Hello,
I too am having this same problem.  Mine just says 'Restricted Access' on a blank page.
I put a marker after each line of UpdateMembershipRecord.php. 
The line
require_once 'CRM/Core/Config.php';     
completes Ok
The line     
$config =& CRM_Core_Config::singleton();does not complete.

I have looked at the apache logs, but no clues.

Does any one have help on how to fix this one?  How to even start?