Ownership & Permission for the Library-folder look weird

Sorry for strange subject-name for the thread, but it's the best I could do . Anyway, I'm having a strange issue with my Mac. I was showing my wife how convenient Spotlight could be. She was logged in with her username, and I asked her to search for my name and... It found and displayed bunch of email residing in my inbox. Now, I managed to track that problem down to her having access to the Library-folder in my Users-folder (I guess that was due to us sharing a single iPhoto-library between us, but I'm not sure).
Anyway, as I was looking at the "Ownershi & Permissions"-area of Get Info, I noticed that it looks... strange. Normally it has those drop-down menus where you can change the ownership and rights of users to that folder. But not in my Library-folder. There it simply tells me that I can read & write to the folder, but it does not tell that I'm the owner. There are no drop-down menu's to be seen. If I open the "Details", it does not show the drop-down menus that are visible elsewhere. Instead, it shows two columns, first one labeled "Name", and the second one is labeled "Privilege". My wife used to be listed there, and she had bunch of privileges assigned to her.
Now, I think that this is due to ACLs. But every other folder displays permissions normally, why doesn't this one folder do? How could I make this folder behave like every other folder does, with drop-down menu's and all?
1.25Ghz G4 Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9)

However, if you note the output of the 'ls -lde
~/Library' command in the post from "11-May-2007
12:21 PM", it can be seen that there are no longer
any ACLs listed for that folder, yet the "+" sign
persists -ie. there doesn't seem to be a way to make
the command relevant to this situation since there is
no index to refer to, so I didn't want to belabour
the point of the syntax error.
That's interesting... the only post from May 11 2007 I see is the one by Király suggesting the use of chmod -R -a ~/Library and the time stamp on that is 3:55pm.
The very next post I see is the May 19 2007 post from Janne showing the syntax error. And in that post the italicized section shows the exact same info (down to the time/date stamp) from ls that was originally posted by Janne. Because of the time stamp, I assumed that was a quote.
So is something missing from the thread I see compared to the thread you see?

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