Graham,

 

>>Also, ideally I would like to be able to select more than one file to be uploaded at a time.

 

This feature is not supported.

 

>>I want to use cute editor as a file manager, but I need it to upload files to a secure location which is not available to the web server.

 

By default, this feature is not supported. To allow upload files to other locations, you have to modify the PHP code.