Hey Dhrup, I just arrived home from the bar, I'll paste the output to you first thing in the morning.

Bonjour Dhrup, here's the output:

[root@localhost calcom_uploads]# ls -la
total 40
drwxrwxrwx. 6 root root 4096 Sep 4 11:29 .
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Sep 3 18:09 ..
drwxrwxrwx. 5 extranet extranet 4096 Sep 3 11:50 2012
drwxrwxrwx. 3 extranet extranet 4096 Sep 3 11:50 file_tools
drwxrwxrwx. 2 extranet extranet 4096 Sep 4 22:50 system_cache
drwxr-xr-x. 2 extranet extranet 20480 Sep 4 11:28 views_simplecache

But certainly I'll change some permissions right away :)

Oh, just one thing. I do think that the particular text on the Duplicate Installation Instructions about the views_simplecache should be rewritten, since it is ambiguous.

Thanks for everyone's help!

I usually laugh when I read people say  "this was a hair puller" but this duplication definitely qualifies as one.

Ignore the instruction step: "Note that you also need to delete the views cache on the test server after the copy process. This is a directory calledviews_simplecache in your data directory and the file called view_paths (or views for elgg 1.8+)."

Duh! :)