Permissions Music Folder not right

I am having troubles with permission in my iTunes folder, after I changed my account from 'robskt' -> 'rob'. I just simply moved it to my new account, and since then I am having these troubles. I fixed it through the finder, and everything was okay for a couple of months, until I did permission repair in the Disk Utility yesterday. When I want to change the owner back to 'rob' I can't select it.
I have these permissions:
Pandora:~ robskt$ ls -ld ~/Music
drwx------+ 5 robskt staff 170 1 jun 09:50 /Users/robskt/Music
Pandora:~ robskt$ ls -ld ~/Music/iTunes
drwxrwxrwx+ 13 robskt staff 442 2 jun 12:58 /Users/robskt/Music/iTunes
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks in advance!
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I would try the instructions listed here. Note they were written for Leopard, but work equally well for Snow Leopard, just use the Snow Leopard installer.
If that doesn't work, we can try a more brute force method.

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