Archive to disk puzzle

Dear Team -maybe what I am trying to do is not possible?
It is this: I want to put my project on disk for someone else to complete and burn on another mac. I have given the disk itself all read and write permissions. I then archive the project and give the project file itself the same blanket permissions. However in get info ‘ownership & permissions’ for the project file there is no box for ‘Apply to enclosed items’ .
The disk burns, but when I try to open it I get the message ‘the file seems to be write protected and cannot be opened” and the permissions have reverted.
Any help would be very much appreciated as this is driving me mad!
Thank you
imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

That is good news! However, at the risk of appearing dumb, this is what happens: I follow insructions and from Get Info I give read and write project file permissions to 'others'. It then tells you to click the 'apply to enclosed items' box at the bottom of the menu - but there is no box on my menu. Then when I save the project on to a DVD and reinsert it to check it works, I get 'the file seems to be write protected...' message and it won't open at all.
I tried saving the project to desktop and the permissions stayed in tact, but when I burn from this file it again reverts to the restricted permissions. I have given blanket permissions on the actual DVD.
Any further thoughts would be much appreciated.
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