[SOLVED] CSS served INLINE because wp-content/uploads is not writable

So I am running WordPress as multisite. I have changed the file permissions so anything can write to the directory:

[~/www/wp-content/uploads/sites/5]# ls -al montezuma/
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 arbe arbe 4096 Nov 9 00:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 arbe arbe 4096 Nov 9 00:02 ../

This shouldn't be necessary, WordPress (apache) is able to save other files with fewer permissions, but just to be sure I opened them all the way up. Yet still when I save the options, the CSS files are not written. Any suggestions what might be going on and how to fix it?

Thanks,
Rosina