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I successfully installed the latest stable CiviCRM build into my 1.6 Joomla install.  After a couple days of messing around with it and Joomla I started getting the following error message on every user page and every admin page (related to CiviCRM, the rest of Joomla works fine).

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Please make sure the /home/adbsadmin/africainprosperity.org/j/media/civicrm/upload/ folder is writable' in /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/packages/IDS/Monitor.php:218 Stack trace: #0 /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/IDS.php(141): IDS_Monitor->__construct(Array, Object(IDS_Init)) #1 /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php(88): CRM_Core_IDS->check(Array) #2 /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php(80): CRM_Core_Invoke::invoke(Array) #3 /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php(24): civicrm_invoke() #4 /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/libraries/joomla/application/component/helper.php(152): require_once('/home/kmallen/a...') #5 /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/includes/application.php(186): JComponentHelper::renderCompo in /home/kmallen/africainprosperity.org/j/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/packages/IDS/Monitor.php on line 218

The error messages vary depending on what page you're on, but the issue is always the same.  Not sure the best course of action here.  Hosting with Dreamhost.