I get unwanted Custom Access on files and cannot remove them.

Since I installed Snow on my iMac quad core, with 10.6.7 at present, I get irregular custom access permissions applied to files and cannot remove some of them. I have tried Tinker Tools System and sometimes that works and other times it does not.
I have wiped my hard drive clean and zeroed it and reinstalled the system many times and it seems to make no difference.
The latest occurance was my users folder had custom access applied to it for no obvious reason. I was able to remove it from the user folder but not able to remove it from my home folder.
I have worked with Dr. Howard Oakley from Mac User magazine and he was unablr to solve my problem also. He has helped me on others with great success.
HELP!!!!

Are you using a machine with only one account (which then of course is the account with administrator authority)?  Rather than completely rebuilding the system, did you use Disk Utility to Repair Disk Permissions?
To repair permissions, boot from the Install DVD while holding down the ‘C’ key. 
Select your Language preference and when the OS Install screen appears, go to the Tools menu in the Apple menu at the top of the screen and select Disk Utility. 
From there click on First Aid and then run Repair Disk Permissions a few times in succession.  There will be some error or warning messages left, but they usually can be ignored. 
Did that help?

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