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The way i do it, is that i connect to the site via FTP and set the templates that i want to make editable to chmod 666.

your ftp client should have this cabability to change file permissions...
For example: in Filezilla (that i use) if you right click on one of the templates (.tpl) and select 'File Permissions' you set the permissions there ..

hope this helps ..

regards

Shafiq :sK