Thank you. That was the problem.. Perhaps this info could be displayed in the settings tables. For those that may not have access to your php.ini I added this code in settings.php right after:
show_table_separator($setting_group[4], 2, "#setting_group_4");
$val = ini_get("upload_max_filesize");
show_description_row("PHP max upload file size: $val");
just as a quick hack..