File permissions issue when putting a file into another person's Drop Box

I frequently drop files from my Mac into a co-worker's Drop Box on her Mac. When I do so, however, the files are inaccessible to her until she does a Get Info and changes the owner to herself.
I've done file sharing of this sort between many different Macs before, but this is the first time I've ever seen someone have to alter file permissions on a file I gave to them--every single time. How can I avoid this problem?
We're both running 10.4.9.
Thanks very much.
MacBook 1.83GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I too have noticed this behaviour with the drop box and find it irritating. I don't use it much so I haven't investigated a solution, but your colleague could try opening Terminal from her admin account and entering these commands:
sudo fsaclctl -p / -e [this enables ACLs on her boot drive]
The below two lines can be pasted in at the same time (replacing "mary" with her short user name):
sudo chmod +a "mary allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file, \
addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" ~mary/Public/Drop\ Box
That should allow her to have full access to any files put into her drop box. Rebooting might be necessary for the ACL settings to take effect.
Disclaimer: AFAIK this should work because I have gotten similar things working before. But I have not tested this specific solution.
FWIW, it might be easier to just e-mail her the file instead.

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