Can't make symbolic links for Documents, Music, Movies, Pictures folders?

So, on my previous setup, which was also running 10.5 I was able to create symbolic links for my Documents,Music, Movies and Pictures folders so those files could be stored on an 2nd hard drive.
However, today I'm setting up my new Mac Pro and I try to remove those folders and create the symbolic links and it tells me that permissions are denied.
Can anyone tell me why this would be different on the Intel Mac than it was on my PowerMac G5? How can I get around it?

those folders are protected by "deny delete" ACLs to prevent accidental deletion.
you can remove the ACLs using
chmod -N ~/Documents ~/Music ~/Movies ~/Pictures
you'll then be able to delete them.
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