Upload manager problem (login failed, cannot create directory)

I have just installed phpalbum and all went well. But when I started configuring I ran into a problem with the Upload manager. I kept getting the "username or password" error although Im certain I've entered the correct data, server name, etc. I placed some echo statements in the code and found out that the phpalbum script adds a backslash (\) to my username. I have an account with brinkster and they use a \ in the username, so my username is something like this: Brinkster\jeroen123. But in the code the script tries to login with Brinkster\\jeroen123 and ofcourse that fails.

Apart from the upload manager test I can't create directories for my galleries either, and this is a more annoying problem, since managing galleries is what phpalbum is good at :)

Is there a solution for this other than me fumbling around in the code?

Thanks in advance!