Snow Leopard Finder always prompting for root password

I've just 'upgraded' to Snow Leopard from Tiger on my Macbook Pro, only because increasing numbers of applications wouldn't install on Tiger. Snow Leopard is significantly slower than Tiger (2 gig plainly isn't enough for SL) and it's knackered a few of my installed applications, but that's not the main irritation. Now, when I carry out any move or delete operations in the Applications folder in Finder, I'm repeatedly prompted for the root password, even though I'm logged in as the root user. As it's quite a long password, for security reasons, this is a real PITA. Under Tiger, I was never so prompted. Can anyone suggest why Leopard's producing this prompt, and what can be done about it? Other than de-install SL and re-install Tiger, that is...
Fred

William Boyd, Jr. wrote:
Is running as "root" your normal mode of operation? If so, why? For several reasons that's recommended.
Fred Riley wrote:
Ok, I suppose I should be a bit more accurate. I login as user 'fredriley' which is a user with superuser rights. I don't login as 'root' because that's pretty bad practice in the Unix world (and rightly so), so my original message was inaccurate.
I'm guessing that's a mistype and should say "For several reasons that's not recommended" since in OS X root is disabled by default. What you were really getting a prompt for is the admin password. But you know that.
Now, though, I find some apps that would work under Tiger not working under SL, and I see no real functionality gain from 10.4 to 10.6. Ho hum.
Only because the application versions you have were written for an OS that was superseded almost four years ago. The current versions of those apps are likely better than ever.
As for "no functionality gain" ...look harder. For me, Tiger was a good solid OS with a few annoyances, Leopard was even more solid with the refinement and removal of most of the Tiger annoyances, and Snow Leopard is a further optimization.
Some people complain about new versions of various apps and OSs only getting loaded down with feature bloat. Well, with OS X you also get a lot of refinement and optimization. If a new version appears to have "no functionality gain," would that not imply that most of the work went into substance (performance, efficiency, workflow) rather than style (feature bloat and eye candy)? Just trying to help you keep an open mind. Personally, I would not want to go back to Tiger because I would miss the subtle but positive adjustments that were made since then. Tiger would just annoy me now.

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