Don't have permissions to data drives after replacing system drive

In my 10.4 Mac Pro, the hard drive with the OS died. I have two more hard drives in there that I store all my data on, those are fine. I bought a new drive, reloaded OSX, created a administrator account during setup, but now I don't appear to have access to my data drives. I did a command+i and tried to reset it to my administrator account and group having read & write, and everyone else having read & write (as other people use this computer too, we all share the data drives so the permissions need to be wide open for everyone) but it says I dont have permissions to do it.
Anyone know how i can blow open the permissions on those two data drives?

Thanks - I did go there but couldn't find my specific issue addressed.
In any event - I've since discovered that the two HD in question (although I use them on a daily basis with no problem) both had "Ignore ownership on this volume" checked in the Info window. The two I COULD access (via Time Machine) did not.
So I unchecked that box on the 2 problem drives and, when I went back into TM, was able at least to select each hard drive with no error messages.
Unfortunately, execept for the "Today" state, TM would NOT go back in time to show files on either of the two previously-locked drives for all of the yesterdays that it backed them up.
Unless I can figure out how to access Time Machine as "System" I think all those archived files are lost to me on the two drives.

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