"locked" users  open to non-admin and guest users

I had this problem a while ago and did a work around that worked.
When I am on guest or other non-admin users accounts and open hard drive and then users I can access files that should be locked. Mine is the only acct that has a Red slashed circle thru it. My wife's account is also admin but the red circle slashes show up past her icon and some of her folders are open.
The last time this came up I dragged her open files into the redslashed document file and everything was fine.
But now my son's file is open to all and this computer is used by many.
When I do the get information and try to change anything in there I get a message of unexpected error and operation could not be completed message error code 120
I get this when I try to get information using my admin acct., his non-admin account, or the guest account. Sometimes it asks me to authorize and then an error now it goes right to error
And the group is listed as admin and read only so it should not be open to all?
Thanks for you help again with these, to me , befuddling problems
Barry

Hi Barry, you need to Repair the HD 1st off with that error code 120 = HFS "Directory not found".
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Then we can work on the other problems, if Disk Utility or fsck should fail to repair it, your best bet is DiskWarrior from Alsoft, you'll need the CD to boot from if you don't have another boot drive...
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

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