Check your folder permissions here:
Admin -> Site or System -> System Information -> Directory Permissions to ensure they're writeable.
They should look EXACTLY like this:
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To check Ownership issues, which do you have ->
Admin -> Site or System -> System Information -> System Information Tab->
Web Server to PHP interface: apache2handler -or- CGI / FastCGI ?