Permissions modification makes the finder crash

My folders have user lists of "Me", "(unknown)", and "everyone", with the default permissions set to "Read & Write", "Read Only", and "No Access" respectively. When I click the little "+" button to apparently add another user to the list the finder restarts after a small pause. Additionally, if I select the "everyone" group or the "Me" user and click the "-" button nothing happens. Furthermore, I cannot change the "(unknown)" category at all. Usually there are "User", "Group", and "Everyone" categories, or at least thats been the case with pre-10.5 versions of OS X. I have repaired the disk's permissions but it hasn't changed anything. Any clues?

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