Well you always need one trailing slash on the data path and there is a check for this.
Now on to folders we set folders to 777 when we make them not 666 and if your server is setting it to nobody then you may need to ask your host as this sounds like a host issue as to my knowledge if your server is setup whatever directories you make should be under your accounts name. we use a simple php command like so to create and change permissions on a directory
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