User's Desktop locked out and root user can't fix it

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I've got a user on this machine that can't save anything to her desktop. The folder behaves like she has no write permissions, but a quick ls -al shows that the folder is owned by her, and her user has permissions to rwx . Even stranger, when I sudo su and try to issue a chmod for that folder, root is denied permission to do so. Stop me if I'm crazy, but isn't root God? Last time I checked, on a *nix based system, root can do anything it wants.
:/Users/xxxxxx root# chmod 755 Desktop/
chmod: Desktop/: Operation not permitted
yep...even though I'm root...not allowed....
even stranger
drwx------ 42 xxxxxx xxxxxx 1428 Nov 19 22:43 Desktop
and the user xxxxxx can't even write to the folder even though the
user has permission to....

yes, it was nailed for gutbunny, but this did not nail it for me. situation: new 32 GB USB flash drive that was allowed to go to sleep with mac book pro 15" 2.33 using mac os 10.4.11. it woke up with no permissions to write to owner or admin user or root. did the following:
GeoG5-2:/Volumes/DiskGO george$ sudo chflags nouchg .
chflags: .: Read-only file system
chflags: .: Read-only file system
GeoG5-2:/Volumes/DiskGO george$ pwd
/Volumes/DiskGO
GeoG5-2:/Volumes/DiskGO george$ ls -l
total 128
drwxrwxrwx 1 george george 16384 Feb 14 21:43 !DrawingLT
drwxrwxrwx 1 george george 16384 Feb 14 19:14 !TeachingLT
drwxrwxrwx 1 george george 16384 Jan 19 08:54 !Words(new)
drwxrwxrwx 1 george george 16384 Feb 15 08:26 DiskGO stuff
short answer is that neither admin george nor root can unlock this thumb drive. and i've tried this with lock/unlock in both positions. should i send it back to the mfgr for replacement?
thanks
george

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