Changing User Plist Permissions

I notice that by default user specific plists have perimissions of 600 though system wide plists have permissions of 644 or higher.
I'd like to enble group read to some of these user plists, however upon gui login/logout I notice that the OS reverts them back to 600.
Does anyone have any idea why? Seems strange. I've seen this behavior on both lion and snow leopard.

Hi Xeep,
Error -60002 is "The authorization parameter is invalid".
From your account, have you first tried changing the Owner to yu, then the Group to admin, then the owner back to her?
Or better yet, try BatChMod...
http://www.macchampion.com/index.shtml

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