I case this ever comes up again, here's a good tip to do things on a webhost, even without real shell access.
(It's evil, I know, but hey, it works)
http://www.gimpster.com/wiki/PhpShell
It's the PHP Shell, it lets you put up a webpage and login to it as your shell, it's horribly insecure, so only put it up when you want to do something on your hosts shell, and then take it down after you are finished.