Handful of files are giving me error 13, directory executable bit issue

[mike]

I am getting a handful of these errors, and I am not sure why. The
directories in question have rights like this:

drw-r--r-- 2 osstbb osstbb 42 2008-05-02 00:04 12981826/

As root, why would it matter if it has executability? I can read it
just fine on the server.

Or is it an issue when it tries to create it on the -client- ? Is
there a way to fix this? I can chmod 0755 the dirs on the server and
it fixes it, but I don't want to have to learn (via STDERR) each
failure when it occurs...

I am not running it as root on the client; I have ran it with -a and
thought maybe that was why. Currently my options are:
-rlEtiOzP

I don't need to keep the uid/gid permissions, but I do need to keep
the executability. But it seems like it can't create a directory on
the client when the executable flag is missing on the server or
something?

rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/bottom_center.jpg":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/bottom_center_left.jpg":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/bottom_left.jpg":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/bottom_right.jpg":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/spacer.gif":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/top_center.gif":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/top_center.jpg":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/top_center_clr.gif":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/top_left_corner.jpg":
Permission denied (13)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat
"/home/backups/linux01/home/clientdir/web/webapps/ROOT/videotemp/RollingDemo_media/images/top_right_corner.jpg":
Permission denied (13)

rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1506) [generator=3.0.3]