Mad props to you guys, Carpetsmoker and jggimi. Thanks to your help, I'm *so* close.
After perusing the suggested man pages (no, really, I did!), I configged sshd_config as suggested. Logging in wasn't working, though. Finally I went through and read the directions on
http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/sftp/builtin/ a bit more closely, and noticed:
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Important (OpenSSH tests for this condition): ensure their home directory is owned by root, and is not writable by any other user or group. This must also be the case for each directory in the path up to the root of your system.
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Aww, damn! That's not going to work, because the web server (which is not running as root) is going to need write access to this directory too. (If I created a home directory which met these requirements, things worked, so otherwise this seems to be the only obstacle.)
I tried various things with symlinks, but couldn't trick OpenSSH. I'll keep experimenting, but it looks like I may have hit another wall.