Bad File Permissions, Locked Files, Applications and Drives

I've been running in to a huge problem the last few days and I can't find a solution short of a complete archive and reinstall. The problem started with photoshop CS3; I couldn't open the application because it said that it was locked and to go into the 'get info' panel and change it. Well, it's not locked and nothing I did could change that. Shortly after this, I started getting folders and files that would keep changing their permissions so I wouldn't have access to them any more. I kept getting the "Unknown" user in the 'Get Info' panel of these files and folders. While trying to find a solution to that, I could no longer add files to the Trash without immediately emptying it. I tried the steps from this post but nothing worked:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1216618&tstart=0
After trying all this, All of my drives except my Main Boot Drive locked itself and I can't figure out what's going on. I have never had this many problems happen in the 12+ years of owning a Mac. could someone please help me.

I went back to 10.4.11. Right before the upgrade to 10.5 I bought a new hard drive and cloned my old system to it and then upgraded. When my machine became completely unusable, I was able to just through in my old drive. I didn't loose that much, but it's still frustrating. I'm still dealing with all my external drives being Locked or the permissions are so messed up that it might as well be locked. I'm gonna be waiting for 10.5.4 before I even think of upgrading again. Worst system upgrade I've EVER had to do.

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I really don't know why I bother with the Microsoft forums when facing technical issues with Microsoft products. I should really just write an Adblock script that takes Google results for this site out of suggested search results.
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This question was first posted to the Scripting Forum. They indcated I should switch to the Plarform Forum. I'm hoping this is the right place. So ...
On my home PCs, when using XCOPY or ROBOCOPY to copy an Outlook .pst file while Outlook is open and has the file partially locked causes XCOPY and ROBOCOPY opertations to abort immediately and report the file as partially locked if the Destination is another
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It focuses on ROBOCOPY and the use of an elevated command prompt.
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I have not yet tried the operation when using “run as an administrator,” but my own login has administrator privilege and still exhibits the problem.
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I'm not a developer, but if any registered developers would care to replicate this and file it as a bug, I'd be very grateful.

Yup. Thomas, have you tried replicating this in the other direction? In Terminal you can make a folder, chown it to root, get the permissions to the same as those of /Applications/Utilities, then as a normal user, try dragging something
into that folder? I have - this is replicable.
This is a real bug - worked ok until 10.7.2, then broke.
I have worked around this bug by changing the permissions on my Applications and Applications/Utilities folders so that my account has write permission there without authentication. But that not ideal from a security standpoint.
If any developer out there could fire a Radar report off on this, I'd be much obliged.

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