Network Volume Permissions Issue

I am having a couple of issues with my "Data" external HD volume that I've setup as a poor-man's NAS (attached via USB to my AirPort Extreme)..
1. Lately I have been experimenting with the various media players for OS X and seeing which one works best for me (VLC, Perian + QT, and Plex). So I selected a random *.m2ts file (from a BD-rip) and then "Cmd + I" to "Get Info" for that movie. In the "Open With" drop-down menu I selected "Plex" (as Plex seems to do a better job streaming than VLC for this one particular mpeg stream file), and when I tried to change it to Plex, it reported that I could not change all files to open with such a program (which is what I was used to being able to do). I thought that was weird as I've always been able to "Change All" in the past. See screenshots for some visual cues.
As you can see below, it says "you have custom access," and I don't even have an option to "Ignore permissions on this volume"
I try to add a new user/owner, and I can't. Says "that name is not valid"
Then out of curiosity i tried to see if the subfolders in that volume are similarly jacked. yes they are!
I also noticed that I have read-only access, even if I am actually the "(unknown)" user that suppossedly has read/write abilities. Not sure if that is me or not. Now when I disconnect the "Data" volume from my Time Capsule and plug it in via USB to my MacBook, all is fine and dandy -- i can read/write, change permissions to whatever, ignore permissions on that volume, change default apps, etc.
It is almost like OS X doesn't realize that I an the owner of that external drive or something, so it tries to lock me out.
I tried some random "chown" terminal commands like the following, which i found browsing macrumors or something. Note that when I tried the second phrase, it said "chown: /Volumes/Data: Operation not permitted" Dang. So i think that this particular terminal sequence (which seems to have solved everyone else's problems in the past, will certainly not work for me). I even tried telling it that I am the "root" user, but I don't remember the command.
sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/Data
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Data
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Data
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/Data
Here is some Terminal info, if it helps:
sddacraig13:~ Anthony$ ls -la /Volumes
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@  6 root     admin   204 Oct 31 16:44 .
drwxrwxr-x  31 root     wheel  1122 Oct 24 15:28 ..
drwx------  19 Anthony  staff   602 Oct 31 07:06 Data
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     admin     1 Oct 31 06:19 Macintosh -> /
drwxrwxrwx   0 root     wheel     0 Oct 31 16:44 MobileBackups
drwxr-xr-x   1 Anthony  staff  8192 Oct 24 21:01 Windows
sddacraig13:~ Anthony$
Any issues you guys can think of? I did clean install OS X AFTER I had originally created the USB volume "Data," but my username and everything should still be the same... I think maybe my computer name may have changed (necessary for a school thingy).
Help! I'd like to be able to write to the volume while it as attached to the network...

This fixes just the symptom.
The cause is driving me nuts.
Whenever there is a little network problem (out of hands because of ISP)...
I looses my Volumes, which is still somewhat acceptable.
What is not acceptable is, that spotlight and whatever apps mean to write something onto my shares and whenever they are not available new folders are added under /Volumes/ShareName and so fourth.
I am tired of fixing it manually.
Because when I reconnect to my shares they'd be added as /Volume/ShareName-1 then as ShareName has been created by Mac OS X natively for some Reason.
In the beginning I thought my Backupsoftware does that, or Amok Exif Sorter or whatever else Application... but shouldn't be the Standardprocedure for creating and writing data that if the folder is not found to interrupt with an exception/error or whatever.
I find it not a very amusing practise to clean up the Volumes Folder every now and then for it gets spammed with rogue mountpoints that are in reality just directories locally for the real share was missing at the time something tried to write to there...
Whenever I miss out that that happened data gets corrupted and I have to clean up the data massup by finding the differences amongst and getting the newest Version etc...
I've been reading a lot of people having this problem and everywhere is described how to clean up the mass but nowhere how or when to fix the issue that it starts with, I mean stopping Mac OS X to create duplicates on its own not being asked to do so....

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