On this account I don't have SSH access, though I might get it enabled tomorrow . . . I think that this is just one account on the server that the person I'm doing this for has.

Until then, is there anything else that I can do? I could run it from my own computer in shell, but if the problem really is a utility in the server then that really wouldn't help me much.

Can I call message() if Debug mode is on? Would I just do that with this?
$ftp = ...
print $ftp->message();