SL and iTunes broken iPhone sync

I get this message when I plug my iPhone into the cradle:
"The Phone [my phone's name] cannot be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."
It still manages to sync most of the info, including podcasts and music. I cannot tell what ISN'T being synced.
Just upgraded to iTunes 9 and it's still broken. This has occurred ever since SL was installed (clean, then used Migration Assistant). My only login is Administrator, I have repaired permissions (several times), done a Keychain repair, Applied my permissions to all iTunes-related folders in Library and deleted prefs and cannot find the source of this.

Figured it out by process of elimination of sync services: a folder of photos had bad permissions.

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Interval Since Last Report:          1063564 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
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Best Regards,
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