zencart admin backend showing incorrect

[abs007]

Hi
I am using the latest version of zencart and have followed the procedures to install the programme. I had a few issues with the template not showing up but thanks to the forum i managed to get this sorted.what i did was
change the .htaccess to .htaccess_off on the includes and admin

I have also emailed my server streamline.net to see if they can help with the security by either making this compatible or changing the access privileges. Dont really know how to explain it but i found an article on this forum advising me what to do. So with the small change the template is coming up.

I went to change the chmod configure.php back to and found that they had already changed from 777 to 644. When i load my homepage it has a warning message that says

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /home/fhlinux139/r/ravsappliances.com/user/htdocs/shop/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file (read-only, CHMOD 644 or 444 are typical). You may need to use your webhost control panel/file-manager to change the permissions effectively. Contact your webhost for assistance. See this FAQ

so i tried to change the chmod from 644 to 444 as it clearly picks out the chmod of 644 being a issue.

For some reason every time i change it and save it over it looks like it has worked but when i go back into the folder to check the chmod is set to 644 still. Dont know what the problem is so done a little reading and found that i need to do something with SSH.

I have created the SSH and have tried to access it with puTTy but dont know where to go from here.

Another big issue that i have got is that the admin back end is incorrect. i am very new to zencart and watched a tutorial on how to add a product. I have managed to add categories however there is no option to add a product. The admin back end of the tutorial compared to my admin backend is different. I have taken a screenshot for you to see.

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Here is a image from the category and products link. As you will notice at the bottom it says products can not be added

http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/w...kenew/zen2.jpg

Im not sure what to do now as i am assuming i have either installed it incorrectly or the chmod attributes haven't been added correctly or are not saving.

Saying that i did check the images directory as this also needed to be changed to 777 and it is still at 777 so that looks fine.

Any help will be extremely appreciated

cheers