Sitecopy deletes directories from outside in rather than from inside out

I think I may have seen this reported before, but just in case...

sitecopy -i sitename
sitecopy: Initializing site `sitename'
sitecopy: All the files and directories are marked as NOT updated remotely.

sitecopy -f sitename
sitecopy: Fetching site `sitename'
<snip: many files and directories>
sitecopy: Fetch completed successfully.

sitecopy -l sitename
sitecopy: Showing changes to site `sitename'
* These items have been added since the last update:
<snip: many additions>
* These items have been deleted since the last update:
<snip: many files>
dir:testing/images/large, dir:testing/images/menu,
dir:testing/images/small, dir:testing/site_manager/images/rte,
dir:testing/site_manager/js/lang,
dir:testing/site_manager/images,
dir:testing/site_manager/includes, dir:testing/site_manager/js,
dir:testing/site_manager/rte, dir:testing/site_manager/sql,
dir:testing/images, dir:testing/includes,
dir:testing/site_manager, dir:testing
sitecopy: The remote site needs updating (541 items to update).

sitecopy -u sitename
sitecopy: Updating site `sitename'
<snip: many file deletions>
<snip: many uploads>
Deleting testing/: failed:
550 public_html/testing: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/site_manager/: failed:
550 public_html/testing/site_manager: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/includes/: done.
Deleting testing/images/: failed:
550 public_html/testing/images: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/site_manager/sql/: done.
Deleting testing/site_manager/rte/: done.
Deleting testing/site_manager/js/: failed:
550 public_html/testing/site_manager/js: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/site_manager/includes/: done.
Deleting testing/site_manager/images/: failed:
550 public_html/testing/site_manager/images: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/site_manager/js/lang/: done.
Deleting testing/site_manager/images/rte/: done.
Deleting testing/images/small/: done.
Deleting testing/images/menu/: done.
Deleting testing/images/large/: done.
sitecopy: Errors occurred while updating the remote site.

sitecopy -u sitename
sitecopy: Updating site `sitename'
Deleting testing/: failed:
550 public_html/testing: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/site_manager/: failed:
550 public_html/testing/site_manager: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/images/: done.
Deleting testing/site_manager/js/: done.
Deleting testing/site_manager/images/: done.
sitecopy: Errors occurred while updating the remote site.

sitecopy -u sitename
sitecopy: Updating site `sitename'
Deleting testing/: failed:
550 public_html/testing: Directory not empty
Deleting testing/site_manager/: done.
sitecopy: Errors occurred while updating the remote site.

sitecopy -u sitename
sitecopy: Updating site `sitename'
Deleting testing/: done.
sitecopy: Update completed successfully.
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