IOMEGA ZIP cannot be modified

Hello,
I'm running 10.4.0.7 on a Power Mac G4 with a builtin Iomega Zip 250.
This has always worked fine before upgrading to 10.4.0.7 but has now started telling me : "The item * could not be moved because *** cannot be modified" when I try to copy files to it.
If I'm logged in as an admin user and I authenticate then it allows me to copy files - but for standard users this is not possible.
Using the shell I can see that the volume has the following permissions :
drwxr-xr-x 4 2086828721 nobody 136 Nov 22 12:19 deb
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Dom.

Hi Dom welcome to Discussions
Slightly different setup I am using the Iomega Zip 250 as a freestanding USB drive so its just the box really
Click once on the Drive icon on the Desktop
FINDER > FILE > GET INFO
At the bottom of the panel check "Ignore ownership on this volume"
chris
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