Who Shoud Be The Owner Of The Boot Disk?

My system has several drives with several partitions. I noticed, via Get Info, on the boot driver that the owner is set to "system". Is that correct? Shouldn't be set to my user account?
I'm asking this question because I just installed Adobe Photoshop CS3 and it won't launch. It says "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available."
I've searched several sites on this issue and one recomended fix is to ignore permisions on the scratch drive. I made that change to all but the boot drive, which I believe you cannot do.
However, I'm wondering if having the Owner of the boot drive as "system" might be causing this issue.
Should I change Owner to my account?
Or is system to correct owner?

Since I've never been able to launch CS3, I'm not sure which drive it's trying to use as the scratch disk.
That being the case, then that's not the problem. By default, PS uses the boot drive as the only scratch disk. Though according to Adobe's forums, ownership issues are the only thing that causes this error.
Here's a few things people there have done to fix the problem. Try them in this order.
1) Repair Permissions on your startup drive.
2) Delete Photoshop's preferences. In the Preferences folder of your user account, delete the entire folder, "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings".
3) Download and apply the 10.4.11 Combo updater. Repair permissions both before applying the update and after. Delete Photoshop's preferences before trying to launch it.

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