Recently lost permission to entire directory

My wife and I have been sharing a folder in /Users/Shared that contained 5 iphoto libraries. All of a sudden, one day her user rights to access the iphoto library folder with all 5 libraries is gone. She gets an error that the iphoto library is locked, or the disk is locked. We have been successfully sharing these libraries for a while and now I have no clue how to restore her rights. info for those who don't know, only applies to change the rights of the current object, and doesn't change rights for all future items so that is not the answer. How does one loose rights so easily? Why does this even exist? Why can't shared be shared like it is on a PC? what's with all the security? I'm just trying to enjoy a computer with my wife and i'm having a rought time of it. I tried repairing disk permissions, but that didn't help. We are at a total loss and nobody who i've asked that owns a mac knows the answer.
Can anybody help me? I don't know where else to get help.
Thanks

What are the permissions of the particular libraries in question? What are the permissions for the /Users/Shared/ folder and the /Users/ folder.
Did you know you can share iTunes and iPhoto libraries from within each application? It should not be necessary to put the library in the /Users/Shared/ folder.

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