Permission change after reinstalling leopard

Because my computer froze totally, I had to reinstall the system.
Doing so, all the disks except the start up one had their permissions changed and a little lock appeared on their icon. So far, I cannot copy anything on any disk. The system says that "the disk cannot be modified".
Modifying permissions with an account admin or the root user does not work. I got an "error code -50" when I try to modify permissions using the root account, using the finder.
All impacted disks/partitions are formatted in MAC OS extended and are journalled.
Any idea what might cause this and what could be done to resolve it?
Thanks

Doing dome additional research, I found the following link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1306886&tstart=255. Can this be the reason of the issue of having to reinstall in the first place?

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