Final Cut HD Tutorial Problem

After reading some of the responses to what were called "Dumb Questions," I'm reluctant to add mine to the list...but here goes. I'm new to Mac...although quite proficient with PCs and audio editing...so I'm not a novice there...however, something as simple as the "Save Project As" required in the tutorial has me stumped. As soon as I browse to the location of the Final Cut Training files, copied from the tutorial DVD to the Macintosh HD, the Save button previously highlighted, grays out, as if the folder was protected, write only. I checked the info on the file and it is clearly Read/Write. So that's not it. Any suggestions. Sorry to ask a dumb question. I'll await a brilliant answer.

Check that YOU have rights to the file/directory - sometimes when you copy stuff directly from a DVDROM/CDROM, you may not have rights. Or save it to another area (your Documents directory, maybe)...
post back,
Patrick

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