Can't Make Aliases - Permissions Issue?

I recently replaced two internal drives with 750 GB SATA drives. Did a clean install of OS X 10.5 from DVD to one of the drives, updated to OS X 10.5.8, and (manually, not auto-update) installed all of the Apple-indicated updates available. Because of previous issues which appeared to be related to permissions/privileges issues, I checked the permissions settings (via Get Info) of each of the Apple-installed applications in the Applications and Utilities folders. All but one of these indicated settings to be:
system Read & Write
admin Read & Write
everyone Read only
The exception was for System Prefs.app, where the settings were:
system Read & Write
everyone Read only
wheel Read & Write (wheel? What's that?)
I was able to create aliases for any and all of these applications.
I then installed the latest HP driver package for my HP 3970 scanner (Photosmart Studio1.0), and checked the permissions status for each of the nine applications produced. Seven of the applications indicated settings to be:
system Read & Write
admin Read & Write
everyone Read only
The exceptions here were:
HP Scan Pro:
rnewby (Me) Read & Write
everyone Read & Write
(unknown) Read & Write
HP Uninstaller:
rnewby (Me) Read & Write
everyone Read & Write
wheel Read & Write
I was able to create aliases for any and all of these applications.
I then installed (in the Utilities folder) CleanApp 3.2.0, with permissions at:
rnewby (Me) Read & Write
admin Read only
everyone Read only
and was able to create an alias of it.
I then installed BIAS Peak LE and an update (to v5.21), with permissions at:
system Read & Write
(unknown) Read & Write
everyone Read & Write
At this point, an attempt at producing an alias of Peak LE failed and produced the message:
"The operation could not be completed because you do not have enough access privileges"
I also noted that with Peak LE selected in the volume window, that the File/Make Alias menu item was greyed-out (inaccessible).
When I went back to attempt making aliases of some of the Apple applications, I found that some of them would now not produce an alias, sometimes producing the same error message and sometimes just doing nothing at all. Which ones are involved seems to be purely arbitrary. Repairing Permissions in Disk Utility had no effect. I've re-run the whole installation process from scratch and wind up the same.
I've looked through the Discussions relating to Permissions problems and such but can find nothing of this nature. All I have here is a bare bones setup of OS X applications, plus three second-party applications, and all of a sudden a problem with a basic function: aliasing. With the possible exceptions of a few Name items ("wheel" and "(unknown)") I don't see any permission entries in Get Info that should prevent me from producing aliases. Can anyone see anything that should be denying me the permissions to proceed?

Jeffrey,
Thanks for your input. While your response is correct, my real concern has to do with why I was able to make aliases of applications in the Applications folder initially, and then a short time later could no longer do so... as if something had caused a change in the Make Alias (menu) command. I am wondering why something like that would happen, and whether it might involve something that may cause additional problems further downstream.

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