Archive Utility and permissions

I was wondering if there was a way to instruct Archive Utility to use the default permissions when expanding a file.
Without a long-winded explanation...I have two users using the same iMac to download client files from various FTP sites. With one user on 1st shift and one user on 2nd, sometimes the downloading and expanding of files can overlap shifts. When one user logs out and the other logs in, one can not access some of the files from the other. Some of these are stand alone files (AI, PDF, etc.) and there are no permission problems with these (I fixed this using umask in a launchd-user.conf file in the /etc folder). Some files are .zip and .sit files. The archives' permissions are are OK until the files are expanded, then the resulting folder has different permissions than the .zip or .sit file.
Any ideas?
THANKS!

This is no problem. See this link. Mac OS X 10.5: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions reports a permissions issue with ARDAgent
Download 10.5.1 Update and install it again and it should get rid of it so you don't see them anymore.

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