Odd wiki permissions problem

Server setup is just OD and Web w/ Wiki (no calendar, mail, etc).
I've found that our wiki server is very sensitive to the way a user logs in.
If they login with their shortname (firstlast), everything seems to work fine. If they login with their full name (First Last), they'll get errors when trying to edit some wikis where they (definitely) have permission.
Additionally, I've found that the User Name at login is case sensitive. "First Last" can login (but still has permission issues mentioned above. "first last" can't login. It's rare that you find a username that's case sensitive anywhere, so was surprised to find this issue here.
Any thoughts on how to track this down? I can of course tell users to use their shortname for their User Name at login, which is a fine work around, but it would be nice to sort this out to make things easy going forward.
Thanks

if i click get info on the "Macintosh HD", i had the users Eveyrone, Wheel, and System.  but my username was not there.
Those ownerships and permissions were as they should be in Lion - you shouldn't try to change them. The startup drive permissions were deliberately made more restrictive in Lion, such that only the root user can write to the top level.
In my dual-boot setup, the startup-drive permissions look like this:
Snow Leopard:
Lion:
There were also  number of similar changes to other folders that Apple feels should not be written to by ordinary users.
From this Developer document:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/WhatsNe wInOSX.pdf
Folder Permissions and Ownership
A number of folders in the System and Local file system domains now have different ownership and permissions. Specifically:
●   Many folders in the System domain that were previously owned by the admin group are now owned by the wheel group.
●    Permissions for the root directory (/) are now mode 755 (writable only by root) instead of mode 775 (writable by the admin group).
●    Permissions for /Applications/Utilities are now mode 755 (writable only by root) instead of mode 775 (writable by the admin group).
●    Permissions for /Library are now mode 755 (writable only by root) instead of mode 775 (writable by the admin group), no longer sticky.
All subdirectories within /Library now have mode 755 (writable only by root)permissions instead of mode 775 (writable by the admin group) except:
● /Library/Caches ● /Library/Fonts ● /Library/Java ● /Library/QuickTimeStreaming ● /Library/Receipts
● /Library/Tomcat

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