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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b15089c0..023b711a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Table of Contents:
   to run as CGI under Apache. How you end up doing this is up to you
   (your mileage may vary).
 
+  NOTE: The new plugin architecture required the use of some functions 
+  which are not in all versions of PHP4. You will need at least 
+  PHP4 beta2. If you need to upgrade please go ahead and install the
+  latest release version of PHP4.
+
 a. Obtaining and compiling PHP4
 
   Point your favorite webserver at http://www.php.net/version4/ and
@@ -107,13 +112,18 @@ b. Setting up directories
 
   The data directory is used for storing user preferences, like
   signature, name and theme. When unpacking the sources this directory
-  is created as data/ in you SquirrelMail directory. This directory
+  is created as data/ in your SquirrelMail directory. This directory
   must be writable by the webserver. If your webserver is running as
-  the user nobody you can fix this by running:
+  the user "nobody" you can fix this by running:
+
+    $ chown -R nobody data
+    $ chgrp -R nobody data
+
+  Keep in mind that with different installations, the web server could
+  typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup, 
+  apache/apache or www-data/www-data.  The best way to find out is to read 
+  the web server's configuration file.
 
-    chown -R nobody data
-    chgrp -R nobody data
-  
   There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored
   before they are sent. Since personal mail is stored in this
   directory you might want to be a bit careful about how you set it
@@ -123,26 +133,48 @@ b. Setting up directories
   permissions. You could do this by running these commands (still
   granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody)
 
-    cd /var/some/place
-    mkdir SomeDirectory
-    chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory
-    chmod 730 SomeDirectory
+    $ cd /var/some/place
+    $ mkdir SomeDirectory
+    $ chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory
+    $ chmod 730 SomeDirectory
 
   If you trust all the users on you system not to read mail they are
   not supposed to read change the last line to chmod 777 SomeDirectory
-  or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory. If a user is
-  aborting a mail but has uploaded som attachments to it the files
-  will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not remove
-  them.
+  or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory. 
+  
+  If a user is aborting a mail but has uploaded some attachments to it 
+  the files will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not 
+  remove them.  To fix this, it is recommended to create a cron job that
+  deletes everything in the attachment directory.  Something similar
+  to the following will be good enough:
+
+    $ cd /var/attach/directory
+    $ rm -f *
+    
+  However, this will delete attachments that are currently in use by people
+  sending email when the cron job runs.  You can either (1) make sure that
+  the cron job runs at an obscure hour and hope that nobody gets upset, or
+  (2) you can run a modified version of the commands above.  Check out the
+  man pages for other commands such as 'find' or 'tmpreaper'.
+  
+  One sample script you could set up that would erase all attachments, but
+  wouldn't erase preferences, address books, or the like (just in case your
+  attachment directory is the same as your data directory) might look like 
+  this:
+   
+    $ rm `find /var/attach/directory -atime +2 | grep -v "\." | grep -v _`
+    
+  Remember to be careful with whatever method you do use, and to test out
+  the command before it potentially wipes out everyone's preferences.
 
 c. Setting up SquirrelMail
 
   There are two ways to configure Squirrelmail.  In the config/ directory,
   there is a perl script called conf.pl that will aid you in the
-  configuration process.  This is the most recommended way of handling
+  configuration process.  This is the recommended way of handling
   the config.
 
-  You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config.php
+  You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config/config.php
   and edit that manually.
 
 4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL