I am using centos 5.7 with cPanel WHM running fastcgi/suEXEC

I am trying to make a particular folder writable to allow a script to upload files but seem to be having problems.

The folder (and all recursive folders) I want to be writable is:

/home/mydomain/public_html/uploads

And I want only scripts run by the user "songbanc" to be able to write to this directory.

I have tried the following:

chown -R songbanc /home/mydomain/public_html/uploads
chmod -R 755 /home/mydomain/public_html/uploads

But it still doesn't seem to work.

The script will only upload files if I set the permissions manually via FTP client to 777.

I assume I am misunderstanding how to set permission for users with fastcgi and hopefully someone can help me.

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Running getfacl on one of the scripts or folders gives the following:

# file: home/mydomain/public_html/ripples/1.jpg
# owner: songbanc
# group: songbanc

So it appears that the owner is correct? I'm now totally confused!

EDIT 2:

The plot thickens... lsattr and chattr are returning Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on...