NFS Permissions Inconsistency (get info, Finder, and PathFinder)

This is the dangdest thing, and I've never noticed it before trying to get CocoaTech's PathFinder to work...
I've got some NFS exports on my MythTV box using squash_all and setting gid and uid to 105 -- which is mythtv.mythtv on the Linux box. Hence I can connect from my Macs and everything else just perfectly fine without having to screw with gids and uids on any of the machines. No muss, no fuss.
Now when I try to use PathFinder, I get read-only access to everything on the mounted shares. Closer examination in Finder (which works rw!) is such that I can read and write and do everything like I've always been able to do, but when using Get-Info on anything in that nfs share, the Get-Info window indicates that I have "read only" access the file or directory or whatever I'm looking at! But that's not really the case, because Finder works perfectly for me!
Any idea what's going on here, or how to make PathFinder work with squashed NFS exports?

Hi Chilled_Penguin, and a warm welcome to the forums!
How full is the HDD?
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, Reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
At least if it doesn't fix it, it'll eliminate a few questions.

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