Must run /usr/local/... apps as sudo?

Has something deep in the esoteric bowels of OS X changed in Snow Leopard that now requires me to "sudo" any application I might otherwise run from /usr/local? Examples: mysql and git are installed to /usr/local/mysql-5.0.67 and /usr/local/git (respectively) — both of which were installed on this MacBook Pro while running 10.5, both of which ran just fine (as my normal user) for months, and now both... there but won't run unless I sudo...
Example!
[20:16:51 ~]
rob@Connemara $ git --version
-bash: git: command not found
[20:17:04 ~]
rob@Connemara $ /usr/local/git/bin/git --version
-bash: /usr/local/git/bin/git: Permission denied
[20:17:18 ~]
rob@Connemara $ sudo git --version
git version 1.6.4.2
(1) Yes, /usr/local is in my $PATH.
(2) Yes, /usr/local/git/bin is in my $PATH.
(3) Ditto /usr/local/mysql (symlinked...)
...anyone?

Solved here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10139530
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local

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