Can't apply Finder color labels to selected apps/utils

just upgraded from tiger -> leopard -> snow leopard.
some of the apps in the Applications folder, and most of the apps in the Utilities folder, have now lost their Finder label functionality: i can't set a label, because that feature is grayed out.
i assume this must be some kind of permissions problem, but i don't get all the way to a solution. even if i add myself to the permissions for the individual item and give myself read+write access, the labeling functionality doesn't return.
first it looked like apple's own apps were more likely to be locked down, but on further inspection that theory doesn't really hold. though, there are apps in each folder for which i can set a label, so it's not about permissions of the parent folder.

Just got my new Mini with 10.6.1 and I can't label certain apps either.
This is a major pain as I use labels to find things quickly. Anyone have a fix yet?

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