Cannot create folder on root of HD

I use the root of my HD to store a couple of folders of video projects from FCE and iMovieHD, so that I can have some accountability as to where my disk space is going and not have them scattered all over my machine (anyone who has worked with DV knows that you can never have enough space, especially on a laptop).
I used my computer for a demo today, and when I went to put a bunch of files on the HD, I couldn't make a new folder. I then made a new folder within another folder, but when I put it on the root of the HD, I had to authenticate. I am the only user on this machine, and my account is the admin account. How do I fix this so that I have full read/write access to the root of my HD?
I feel really dumb right now because I am usually the computer nut who everyone else asks questions, and this seems so simple, but evidently I am missing something.

Don't modify the permissions of the boot volume. They are setup that way for a reason. This reminds me of the old saying: +sudo doesn't kill OS's, users how enter admin passwords do+
The default privs for your boot volume should be 775. Owner (root) set to Read&Write, group (admin) set to Read Only and Everyone set to Read Only. If your user is an admin user, then you should be able to create folders on the root of your hard drive without issue. If your user is not an admin user, then that would explain the problem. There have been reports of admin users getting downgraded to regular users after an upgrade install. To verify this, launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and type:
id
and press return. In the list of users/groups, the group 'admin' should be present. If not then your user is not an admin user. To solve this, either login as another admin user and make the other user an admin again via System Preferences->Accounts or if you don't have another admin user, check out this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306876
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