Transfer purchases from iPhone 3gs error

My wife and I both have an iPhone 3gs. We've created separate users on our iMac to manage iPhones/iTunes. We both have admin privileges. It's worked brilliantly until today. I recently synced/updated to OS 5.1.1 (last week)...no problems on my end. My wife tried today, but unfortunately gets an error message at the end of the transfer purchases/syncing process: "Attempting to copy to disk "Macintosh HD" failed. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."
Any ideas?

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