Time Machine needs authorization?

I recently had my macbook pro fixed, and Apple replaced nearly everything (hard drive, motherboard, etc) so it is in essence, a new computer. I used my time machine (from before it broke) to "transfer" everything from my "old" computer to the "new" one. It worked fine, except I'm having one problem... everytime I try to send something to my time machine (which I also use as just a plain external hard drive I throw junk on I don't want to keep on my desktop) it says I can't because "Time Machine Can't Be Modified." However, it gives me the option to authorize the modification and I have to enter my password. Before my computer was replaced/fixed/whatever I never had this problem, I could just drag and drop and it wouldn't give me any authorization crap.
Anyone know how to fix this?
It also says I don't have permission to look at my pictures fold (there is a red circle with a white line like the road signs for do not enter) beside the folder icon.
Thanks.

I'm only vaguely familiar with fusion drives, and haven't seen anything about using them with Time Machine, so bear with me.
On "normal" drives, this usually has one of two causes:
• An additional internal or external volume is connected, but not excluded from being backed-up. See what's shown in the exclusions list of TM Prefs > Options, and also what it shows for Estimated size of full backup under the box.
• A directory problem that makes some thing(s) appear to be much larger than actual. Normally, that's fixable by just running Repair Disk.
If neither of those shed any light, let's see what the messages say. If you're familiar with Console, filter your system.log for backupd and find the most recent attempt. There may be a message for each volume starting "Will copy ...". If you're not familiar with Console, use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. If it's not clear, copy and post them here.

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