Persistent Lock Icon on AE USB Disk

Hi. I have a 1TB USB disk hanging off of my Airport Extreme. At some point recently, it decided to lock itself and become non-writable. I've mucked around in Terminal and tried Super Get Info, and in both places it shows the volume as being owned by me (777 UNIX permissions). I've gotten to the point where I can copy files into the existing folders on it, but not directly to the volume (e.g., I can't copy a folder onto its "desktop.").
Am I just doing something immensely stupid, or missing something really easy? I'm pretty frustrated; a network disk you can't write to isn't really worth very much.
Any help would be appreciated.

run the following terminal command
sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/*
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