Trash requiring password

Using Mt. Lion 8.2. Trash is requiring a password all of a sudden for no apparent reason. I already ran disk utilities and permissions repair with no positive effect on the problem. Any suggestions?

Choose your Home folder "Get Info" (command-i) and be sure you have "read & write" in the Sharing & Permissions section. Check under "General" section to be sure it isn't locked. If that is correct, launch Applications/Utilities/Terminal and at the prompt copy & paste this command…
mkdir ~/.Trash
Press return.
If you get a message that the folder already exists, copy & paste these commands...
sudo chown $UID ~/ .Trash
Press return.
Enter your admin password (it will be invisible)
Press return.Then enter
chmod u+rwx ~/.Trash
Press return. Log out and back in, or restart.

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NO. This did NOT help me. If you or anyone knows the answer, please TYPE the answer in a reply to me. Referring me to an answer already given simply sends me to a reply to a different question (that may be the same only worded differently), but, instead of SEEING an answer, all I get is the phrase, "See the answer in context". When I click that the page moves, but, NO new information is displayed (There is NO answer).
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