@king1what folders exactly are you trying to stream. I may be wrong but I think it can only stream from the parent dir so say you had
/home/user/MyDocs/music/pop/
/home/user/MyDocs/music/classic
I think you would have to share both separately and not justt the
/home/user/MyDocs/music
Directory. For ease of acces remember you can also use the web interface on your home pc over the network just type in the url it gave you with the port number into IE or what ever you use.

Regarding the issue with having to gainroot each time it could be a permission issue. You can change this as root
chmod 777 /.fuppes/fuppes.cfg

Like I said i have only had a quick look on my break. I will be trying this out on my system later.