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ftp issues

It sure seems like Apple, in designing OS X Server, put emphasis on it being an AFP server rather than a web server. ftp is very poorly handled.

As a web host, when I create a new user, I want that user's home directory to be her web site root. I don't want directories for "Movies" and such cluttering the place up either -- and I don't want her to be above to cd up, out of her site home to browse through my websites directory. Apple makes this really difficult. So I turned to WebMin.

To configure Webmin's ftp, it wants to know:
Full path to wuftpd
Full path to ftpaccess file
Full path to ftpconversions file
Full path to ftpgroups file
Full path to ftphosts file
Full path to ftpusers file
FTP server PID file

For those of you successfully using WebMin to manage ftp service on OS X Server, what are the above paths?

In adding a new user, do you avoid Server Admin altogether and just use WebMin?

Perhaps Apple needs a setting in Server Admin that allows us to designate a new user as either a file sharing user or web site owner. A file sharing user would be set up just as a new user now is and a web site owner would not get print and AFP services, a plethora of unneeded directories and the user home directory template would contain a placeholder default index.html page that said "another site hosted by..." and would be created inside the web sites directory. Izzat too much to ask?
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