Just upgraded to Lion and cannot open files on my old SL partition - permissions error

I have just installed Lion on my 2008 MacPro on a new internal HD and cannot open word/text etc  files on the original Snow Leopard disc.  I get a permissions error.  I can preview the file but not open it.  When I do a get info, I can add my user and give it R&W permissions but still cannot open the file.  I have a third disc with just videos and no system and this is OK.
For information my upgrade method was as follows:
     Install blank hard disc and fromat it.
     Clone original HD onto new drive using CCC
     Give it a new name
     Boot from the new clone and go through the lion install
     Update the new system to 10.7.4
     Repair disc permissions
Through this method, I have a duplicate set of files on the Lion partition and these I have no problem opening, it is just those on the SL disc.
Any ideas as to how to fix this.  I did the duplication as I still want to be able to boot from SL for some old applications and hardware (a film scanner being one).
Thanks
Dave

Softwater,
Well, I booted back into SL, and as I mentioned, I did have filesharing enabled.  So I added the whole disc as shared and re-booted back into Lion.
Still no luck. I get exactly the same permissions error and cannot open any files.  This seems crazy that from Lion I cannot open files on other bootable partitions.
I added myself as a RW permission on the disc via Get info and still cannot see the files. This is very strange behaviour.  According to get info on the disc, I have full read/write access and on the file itself.
I can see all the files on non-bootable partions.
Dave

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