Password required to delete or move files in Mavericks - permissions

I have the problem where when I try to delete or move files, I get asked for a password. I've read the various old threads on this problem, and tried the following fixes:
Using Disk Utility, repaired permissions
Booting into the passwork reset utility (holding cmd-R on startup), and resetting permissions
Changing the permission on .Trash
None of this worked.
I began exploring the permissions on my files and on all of them, info reported that the file permissions were generally set as:
everyone - Custom
(Me) - Read & Write
staff - Read only
Sometimes there was an additional entry of everyone - Read & Write
In reading about permissions, I couldn't figure out what that "Custom" meant. If I did an ls -l on that file, I got -rw-r--rw-@
I have found that if I reset the permission for everyone to Read only, and make that Custom privilege go away, the passwork requirements for that file also go away. If I use the Info panel, if there is a second everyone entry, I have to remove that by setting it to No Access. Only then can I change the upper everyone privilege from custom to Read only. But that fixes the problem for that file.
So, here's my ask. How do I do this over all my files? Executing CHMOD 744 (filename) does not remove the everyone - Custom privilege, and thus doesn't fix the problem.

As I've explored this further, it's apparent that this is an ACL problem, where the everyone deny delete ACL permission is being set. (Not sure of the right terminology here.) This can be cleared with the command: chmod -N (filename)
For some reason, this has propagated throughout my file system, creating havoc in applications. Dropbox won't update because the files can not be changed, bookmarks in Safari can't be removed, etc. I've fixed the application problems for now with chmod -R -N ~/Library but there's no telling what other damage I may have done by removing all the ACL permissions from all those files.
The question I'm chasing now is what is changing the ACL's on these files. It appears that the ACL settings are inherited from the folder, but when I check the folder properties with Get Info, I don't find anything. What am I missing?

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