Can't overwrite anything in my Applications Folder

I can remove and add things but if I try to overwrite something it will say I don't have the privileges to do it. I have tired repairing permissions and repairing the disc. Help please!! This is angering me.

If you do a "get info" ie command-i on the primary Applications folder, you will find that it is owned by "system"
Each user can have his or her own user Applications folder to which they can add or subtract at ease.
The main Application folder usually asks for an admin password in order to change anything in it.
edit: Admin user can read and write to Applications (see "details" in "get info" but some applications themselves are owned by "system" and are "locked"; those you cannot change. For instance, iCal is owned by system and is locked, you cannot change the application. That does not mean that you cannot change your preferences and uses of the app, it simply means that you cannot change the application itself.
If you try to change system apps, you will create problems. That is why you have a user folder that has library, prefs, documents etc. Those change the results of the application but not the application itself.
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