Actions for All users - Detection Problem

I have created some action in illustrator and copied in the Presets\Actions folder. But it is not detecting for all users. Is there any way make the recorded action to be detected for all users?
Version: Illustrator CS2 and CS3 Windows XP SP2
The same way I did for photoshop is detecting recorded actions for all users after copying to default action folder.
Thanks,
Selvakumar

Check the permissions on the files themselves. They certainly do not inherit the properties of the folder and thus are not readable by all users. "System" and "Everyone" should possibly have full access in that case.
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