What does "Sufficient Access Priveleges mean?"

I just bought an ibook g4, about a year old. The person I bought it from said she erased all of the information off of it, ready for my use.
I went in under the "New user" account and changed the password the former owner set and put my name on the computer as the user.
However, I can not "access" the "Documents" folder, the "Music" folder, etc. When I try to access these folders, the following error message comes up "Documents could not be opened because you do not have sufficient acess priveleges". What does this mean? How do I gain access to this folder?
Because of this access problem, I also can not save a document in the Apple Works program.
I thought that the problem was with the "Classics" program. When I tried to go to Classic, it was not running. I am unable to activate it at all. The error I get when `i try to do this is "Classic preferences is unable to save or read preferences. Classic can not start".
Also, a keychain error message comes up when I use the internet sometimes "A keychain can not be found to store 'Safarai' ". What does this mean and how do I fix it?
I tried to put the Recovery disc in and re-install the software, but there was an error during the copying of the files and I had to quit.
Can you please gove me any advice possible on how to fix this problem? Is it a problem with my ibook, a password problem, or a problem with the Tiger program???
Thanks!

Access permissions are described in http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712. Hopefully the person who sold you the machine included the original install and restore disks. If so, I suggest booting from the restore disk, erasing the HD with Disk Utility, and restoring the software. Then, when it restarts, enter your own username and password. Trying to fix the current mess isn't worth the effort. Then you can update to Tiger.

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