I've searched the forums for this but I think I may have run into a case of "caused one problem while trying to fix another".

- Have SIG(free) installed with K2 on my Joomla 1.5 site.
- Was attempting to use image gallery for a K2 article but got a message stating "Notice: Please install the Simple Image Gallery (Free/Pro) plugin if you want to use the image gallery features of K2!"
- Found suggested fix in forums that stated to "Make a copy of jwsig.php in the plugins/content folder and name it jw_sig.php upload it back to that folder and it fixes the problem."
- Did this and now had an option on "image gallery" tab of K2 article to Upload a zip file with images

So, thinking this is working now, I uploaded my zip with images through the tab and got the code to insert in my K2 article.

I did this and see an error below header of my site:

Warning: opendir(/home/hm0084/public_html/images/stories/21) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/hm0084/public_html/plugins/content/jwsig.php on line 100

I'm no whiz at PHP but it seemed pretty self-explanatory to look for a dir called 21 in the location specified in the error.  There is no 21 directory and images dir has full read/write/execute permissions.

Could someone help me out before I make things worse here?

I have a bandaid for this but I'd still like to know if there's a fix.
I created the directory in images/stories (in this case it's called 21) and uploaded the images into that directory.

Thumbs are broken but the images work if you click on the broken thumb.
So, now I still have to find a fix for original issue and now for broken thumbs.
I've already checked out permissions on showthumb.php and tried 755 and 777 on it.
Also checked that my host has GD enabled for my server.

So, if anyone can lend some insight into either of these, I would greatly appreciate it!  :)

Please take a look here:
forum.joomlaworks.net/index.php?topic=4971.msg24639#msg24639