Can't change names of files in Finder after Leopard upgrade

OK, I'm sure this is an easy fix, but I haven't found this precise situation looking around. Hopefully someone can point me to exactly the right utility.
I had Tiger, then upgraded to Leopard, then had some of the problems reported elsewhere on this board (iCal that wouldn't index; etc.). I decided to do an Archive and Install of Leopard, and that basically went fine. Now I have an iCal that will index (although it still fails to automatically delete items older than a certain age, but I can work around that)... and the daunting task of reinstalling everything.
I can handle that, but... this has me stumped. From my Previous System folder I rescued a bunch of Keynote documents which I need to work on, and of course many other files. I frequently get Permissions problems, and I thought I knew what to do: add my new Admin account as a user, select it as the new Owner in the popup, then apply to all enclosed items in the folder. This does indeed work OK in many cases...
But now I have a simple Keynote document which I COPIED (didn't even move!) out of its location deep inside the Previous Systems folder, and now it won't let me rename it in the Finder. It says I own it! Why not?
I have run Disk Utility and Repaired Permissions. It found about 30 things to repair, none of which seem to involve my Keynote; and indeed the Keynote is still un-rename-able.
Help!
One final point, probably unimportant, but I should mention it. I did NOT intend to do this, but my fingers slipped and my new admin account has the same name as the previous owner of everything. Is this likely to cause massive confusion? If so, what do I do... make a new, carefully named admin account and change everything over to it?
Thanks, everyone!

Well, it wasn't an easy fix. I guess that's why no one responded.
I had to backup, zap my hard drive, and install a fresh copy of Leopard. No archive and install for me this time!!
Even then I had permissions issues after restoring files from a backup. (I didn't want to use Migration Assistant, because I presumed it would transfer some corrupt index files.) I searched around these forums and finally found an Apple page that gave 2 Terminal commands to fix a Finder bombing problem. That wasn't my problem, but it was permissions-related, and it fixed almost all the problems.
Now I know that the solution for those pesky remaining ones is to create a new folder in my home directory, copy the offending files into it, Get Info on the enclosing folder, unlock it using my Admin password, tell it to copy the folder's permissions to the contents, then check to see if the offending permissions have vanished. If so, trash the originals (that password will be needed again!) and transfer the clean ones back to their original locations.
Sigh. Apple, why did you change all those Permissions things in Leopard without providing a fix for this kind of stuff??

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