Permissions keep changing

Ok, I have owned 3 Macs in the past and I have never been so ready to chuck this brand new Mac Mini out the window. Here is what I got:
My wife does not have permission to view her pictures, music, itunes database, etc. she is an admin and in the file info I have to change the permissions file by file, if I change permissions on a folder and select apply to contents, it does not do so.
Also if I do this logged in as myself I will put her name in the permissions for read and write, select apply to folder contents, it just changes her name to mine so my name is on the list twice and hers is not there. This is very frustrating, any solutions?

Well after another 15 mins of research I found there is a bug in 10.6, I found the solution here:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2331277

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