Various Problems With Admin Priveleges

Hi, I'm an Apple-Certified Macintosh Technician in Canada. I spend so much time helping clients with their Macs that I haven't had much time to do maintenance on my own machine, but tonight I found a couple hours. So, I have a very peculiar problem with my own iMac (2.4ghz Mid 2007) that has me stumped. I started by booting from my Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, and ran 'repair disk' and 'repair permissions' from disk utility. No errors were found with the file structure, much to my delight, and I have one SUID error that I (have been told) can safely ignore. I have also trashed all my preferences on the user and system level, and have trashed the keychains on the user and system level as well. I then restarted the computer to refresh with new keychains and preferences. So, I know that I should be running smooth as butter.
HOWEVER... I went to install a trial of ViaCAD, and I was presented with a notice that I could not install it because I needed to be an administrator. WHAT?? I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR!! Now, normally when something is installed that requires administrator access, it would ask me for my password, but to my dismay, this one didn't. It simply told me I can't, end of story. No password request. Now, since I am an Apple-Certified Technician, I have access to extra content in the Knowledge Base, as well as service-only areas of Apple's website. I have been unable to locate any information that could help me sort out my own issues. Has anybody reading through this ever had this issue themselves and solved it?
I have read a number of other posts here of others who have this same problem with other software, such as canon camera software, diner town tycoon, or wedding dash... I even tried the "sudo chown" trick to make all files in my home folder belong to me, and I get the same "installer requires admin privileges to run" error. I need help, as a certified tech I can't bear to have an "unsolveable" issue on my own iMac...

Ohms238 wrote:
We have a small office with 3 macs here and we use one mac as our "central server" where we drop in all the files. However whenever I put a file in there one guy can't open it and when he puts a file in there another guy can't open it. It always says there's no permissions and we're always have to be putting in user password. It's frustrating and flat out ridiculous we just want to be able to transfer files back and forth with no problem. Is there away to remove permissions completely?
You've attached your message to a thread that was already marked as "answered". As a result, many people would ignore it. You really should have started your own thread for your problem.
That said, you might be able to solve your problem by attaching an external disk drive to that "server" Mac and marking it to "ignore permissions". This Apple article
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh669.html
is for OS X 10.4, but the procedure should work for newer versions. The point is that you can't set a boot volume to "ignore permissions", but you can for a non-boot volume.

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