"Documents" folder is suddenly locked, can't change HELP!!

Help!!
All of a sudden my Documents folder, in my home folder has a little "lock" in the icon and its marked "read only". The attributes ar "dr-xr-Sr-- " I've never seen the "S" before, no clue...
Nothing I do will change this. What could have possibly happened and better yet how do I fix this. It's the Documents folder and ALL the sub-folders. I've tried changing the permissions in Finder and it won't stick. Nothing I try seems to work and now I'm desperate.
Please help!
Peter

As well as the advice posted above, enter the following into the Terminal:
ls -Aol drag enclosing folder into Terminal
Both instances of l in the command are lowercase Ls. Post back with the results of the command, which can be done before or after changing the permissions on the folder. The S permission in that place means that the setgid bit is set on that folder but not the execute/search right for the group. This bit causes all items created in the folder to have the same group as the folder if the underlying file system supports this feature.
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