comziz on "Double count & /wp-hit-counter/settings_wphcu.php on line 56"

Hello,

I just downloaded this plugin. I was looking for a simple counter like this for a long time.

I was so excited, but when I saw that it counts every refresh as "2" hits, I decided to take a look at the settings, unfortunatelly when I click "WP hit counter" from the "Settings" menu,

I get;

Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File ..... is not within the allowed path(s): .... /wp-hit-counter/settings_wphcu.php on line 56

for every *.*gif that is provided.

The 56th line is this;
if(is_dir($path . $filename . "/")) {

Is there a way that I can fix the double count or the line 56 error?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hit-counter/