Permissions problem with old Windows XP folders & files

Hi,
I migrated about 8.7 gig of files (21,742) from a set of folders on a Windows machine some time ago. I know keep them on my iMac HD and access them through VMWare Windows XP instances and shared folders.
I want to copy the entire folder to an external drive for taking to client sites, use on windows laptops etc.
However, there are long standing file permission errors within the folder structures that raise the following error during a copy.
"The operation cant be completed because you don't have the permission to access some of the items".
I have tried setting the permissions on the top level folder, setting the bit to "apply to enclosed items". I have run disk repair, permissions repair & I have used Disk Warrior to do the same. I have removed as many of the dodgy Windows style files that are unrecognisable (eg. .LNK files) but no joy.
I tried running a SUDO CHOWN command recommended in another post, but it didn't work.
Does anyone know what might be at the root of the problem. I need an automate solution to this as there are too many folders & files to deal with individually and if I start chucking things out Murphy's law says I will need the ones I ditch.
Thanks
Eric

Download a program called BatChmod and use it to change all of the permissions. It works better than the Finder at fixing permissions on a deep folder hierarchy.
Chown only changes the owner of the files. It doesn't change the posix permissions.
Chmod is the command that changes the posix permissions. You can use BatChmod to do it in a GUI, or use this in Terminalsudo chmod -R u=rwx, go=rx after copying this to the Terminal, drag your folder to the Terminal window and hit return.

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