Martin Dougiamas

The next release of Moodle does some changing of permissions that should relieve this problem:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=337&parent=2743

You might want to try a recent nightly version of Moodle (from the download page) and try putting this in your config.php:

$CFG->directorypermissions = 0777;

Yes, you're right. The warning is wrong when used in safe mode - I'll get that fixed for the next release. In the meantime, you can delete that error message from admin/index.php.

No, that was just an example. You would put the images on your own site and change the URL to match.

You can put HTML code in that field (which is in fact exactly what Przemyslaw did in his post!). eg:

<img src="http://moodle.org/images/mmm.gif">

gives:

Great! Your site looks very slick too ... nice job!

There is no way to easily export/import surveys yet (but there will be one day).

You could email me your modified survey.php and a MySQL dump of the survey_questions table - perhaps I could include the survey in a future Moodle release.