[Contact Form 7 ] Problem with uploading / activating plugin

Hi all,

I’ve got an issue with the plugin Contact Form 7.
In fact, there are 2:

1) When trying to install the plugin via the plugin list, I get an open basedir error, which means that a directory outside of the webserver’s DocRoot is not accessible. I guess I can’t workaround as I cannot edit the httpd.conf of the webserver itsel ?

2) When trying the alternative method, uploading the extracted plugin folder to the correct location (wp-content/plugins), the plugin is not visible in the list, hence I cannot activate it…

Anyone who can help me out here ??

cheers,
Unforgiven.