hi shari,
did you ever try to apply or save any changes even though it says that params.ini is unwritable?
mine says this almost all the time and still i am able to just go ahead and apply changes, please give it a try. if it still does not work, try to enable the ftp layer in the joomla global configuration.
as jem said, hostgator works fine for him and i know some of the other moderators have accounts there too and run all rt templates without any issues.
kat 
Shari Pierre wrote:
I was able to get my templates to work. It just requires a change in permission everytime I want to save. Not the most efficient, but at least I get to use the templates. Thanks for responding as quick as you did.
Shari Pierre wrote:
Who would you recommend? I only signed up for the monthly plan while I look for a host better than Yahoo! Talking about restrictions! Don't get me started. Anybody is better than Yahoo when it comes to databases.