Permissions problem - I have two "everyone"'s

I'm getting the "you don't have access" warnings when trying to save/move files. It's intermittent and seems to affect files I copied from an older Mac to my MB Pro running 10.6.3. When I check the Sharing & Permissions the files have the following:
everyone: Custom
(Me): Read & Write
staff: Read only
everyone: Read only
I've tried some of the Terminal scripts that supposedly change all permissions in a given user's directory to allow the user full access. No luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ron

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