Here is my configure line :

'./configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-gd' '--with-ttf' 
'--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' 
'--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-safe-mode' '--with-imap' 
'--enable-ftp' '--enable-sockets' '--with-apxs'

The script that is used is as simple as :
<?
@move_uploaded_file($file, 
"/path/to/my/directory/filename");
?>

My Apache webserver runs as user and group httpd.
Now the really annoying thing is that whenever my customer 
or myself upload a file, the uploaded file is correctly 
moved but the ownership is set to httpd.root ( user httpd 
and group root ) Now this is a real big problem for my ( 
even without considering the security hole it represents ) 
because my customers cannot manage to erase these files 
anymore afterwards via FTP, because their uid will not let 
them touch these files.