X-Cart forums - permissions issue

Hi,
I am trying to change permissions to edit templates. What is strange is that I can change the permissions on some folders and it works but change it on others and it doesn't. For example I can't make the 2 templates in this folder writable even though they are both set to 666

Quote:

skin/common_files/modules/Google_Analytics

also, when I chmod 777 the skin directories below, they don't say OK in the summery page of x-cart. I have the $admin_safe_mode = false; set in the config.php file too

Quote:

Directory Status
catalog OK
files OK
skin/common_files Non-writable
skin/common_files/pages Non-writable
skin/common_files/pages/en Non-writable
var/cache OK
var/log OK
var/templates_c OK
var/tmp OK
var/upgrade OK

any ideas?