So, I emailed customer service about the issue with my image upload script that worked perfectly fine up until a couple of days ago.  Their reason for the script not working on their servers is that their php settings have been changed so that they are no longer running in safe mode.  Derek says that’s a bunch of hoo-ha, that the only way it would change is if it went from running in non-safe mode to running in safe mode.  So we’re a little stumped, and I’m a little more than annoyed with the customer service that my hosting company is providing.