Admin permission won't allow install

I recently started having problems printing, and in attempting to solve that problem I attempted to re-install the printer driver. After entering my administrator password, I was greeted with a dialogue box telling me that administrator level permission or higher was required to perform this operation. I am the administrator and my login/password appear to work for all other functions including creating a new user with admin permissions and enabling root user. Both of these actions failed to solve the problem - I continue to get the same message.
I have also run the disk utility to repair both disk permissions and repair disk. Neither of these operations appeared to find any problems or solve the problem. I have attempted to install two other pieces of software - I can't install these either.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Amos

Amos
I was able to activate the root user and install the printer driver.This certainly should not be necessary. I hope you de-activated root after this.
I still cannot load any softwareWhat exactly do you mean by this? That you can't install programs or that you can't launch (i.e. 'run') them?
It seems to me you have two options. The quickest would be to Archive & Install, see Mac OS X : About the Archive and Install Feature. Or you could continue to try and track down the problem, with no guarantee of success. I am happy to help you with that, but must leave the decision to you.

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