Time Machine with two computers - "You do not have sufficient access privileges"

I am currently running an Intel-based iMac at home and was recently given a new Intel-based MacBook Pro to use for work. The iMac at home is running Leopard and the MacBook is running Snow Leopard. After I loaded all of the necessary files from the home computer to the work computer (using the files on my external that I use for time machine backups), I decided to use the same external hard drive to use as the Time Machine for both computers. However, now whenever I try to access the Time Machine Backups from the opposite computer, I am told that I "do not have sufficient access privleges." E.g., when I try to open the TM MacBook files on the iMac or vice versa, I recieve this message. Opening the files that were backed up on the same computer is no problem.
Any thoughts? Thanks!

kabbydriver- No, no, no, no no! Do not screw around with permissions on the sparse bundle or the mounted disk image. Dude, this is the third bad advice from you I've read in the last hour. Isn't it enough that one of your responses violated the forum terms of use and had to be deleted? It's time to give it a rest; come back another day.
UCOdoublebass- You need to create a different Time Machine backup for each Mac. Two Macs cannot backup to the same Time Machine backup image. Read this to get started learning about your options:
http://www.macworld.com/article/131841/2008/01/multiplebackup.html

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I am wondering what does "You do not have sufficient access privileges" mean? I have a G$ with 2 internal hard drives. One has OSX 10.3.9 loaded on it and the other has OSX 10.4.7 loaded on it. When I boot up in 10.4.7 and try to access (open or copy) anything in the the desktop, documents, library, movies, music or pictures folders in my user folder on the 10.3.9 disk, it tells me that "I do not have sufficient access privileges"! This is a single user machine and it automatically logs in as me... the administrator. I tried to look at Apple's technical documents regarding permissions and privileges, but it is very confusing with all of it's terminal commands and lingo. Does anyone know an easy (and hopefully GUI) way around this problem?
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I certain the original is contained in the Combo updates and on the OS disks.
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total 12200
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Message was edited by: user9287432

Thanks, Scott. I executed
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and
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(replacing myusername with my user name)
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from the thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6963994
or
http://tinyurl.com/56xrz8
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or
http://tinyurl.com/57vls4
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or
http://tinyurl.com/5daza8
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