user-photo plugin problem

Iam trying to upload a photo using the user photo wordpress plugin, but for some reason its not working.When i try to upload a photo, i get this following error message :

Upload error: The userphoto upload content directory does not exist and could not be created. Please ensure that you have write permissions for the ‘/userphoto’ directory. Did you put slash at the beginning of the upload path in Misc. settings? It should be a path relative to the WordPress root directory. wp_upload_dir() returned:
Array ( [path] => /home/vol6/hostwq.net/hq_2061100/htdocs/data/wp-content/uploads/2008/11 [url] => https://sanjaymenon.hostwq.net/data/wp-content/uploads/2008/11 [subdir] => /2008/11 [error] => )

so anyone has any idea on how to fix this problem?
Please help me with a way to get over this problem or recommend another good userphoto-like-plugin (if there is any).

Thanks in advance!!!