user photo plugin error

[harris414]

I am getting the following error with the "user photo" plugin.
I installed this plugin through the site admin

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
(
[error] => Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/monstermx.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
)


thanks for the help