with everyones help here I was able to get this wonderful modification up and running.
the latest problem was indeed an improperly set directory. I had it as ubbuploads and it created that directory for me in my cgi directory. course when i tried to access those files from the link provided after uploading it never gave me the right picture, file whatever. so when i changed the directory to ../html/ubbuploads it worked flawlessly
thanks again everyone. couldn't have done it without everyones help.
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