Shoutbox

Ok I managed to find *by chance* an old index.php that I had on an old hard drive that I was once using when I was editing the style, skin etc.
So I uploaded that and that was fine. One more thing I had to do was change the permissions on every single little file, including all little images, so they were back viewable again.

To cut it short I managed to get it back up and running again. Can anyone offer any suggestions on how I can prevent this happening again as it was quite a hassle.
There is an upload folder in the viperguestbook directory I just noticed so i've changed the permissions on that to hopefully only make it viewable by the owner. Anything else you can think of?

Once again thanks for the help everyone.