Yet another 10.5.3 Permissions Issue

Howdy.
After updating to 10.5.3, my iTunes library, which is located on an external drive, claimed i did not have permissions to say, download new videos or podcasts and what not. After some research, I found that Changing the permissions on the iTunes Library Folder tends to fix the problem. My issue is that I cannot change them. At all. When I "Get Info" my external drive, it shows that My account has Read/Write Access, but the User "Everyone" Has only Read Only privileges. The lock next to this box is greyed out, and clicking on it does nothing. There is a box at the bottom that reads, "Ignore Ownership on this Volume," and it is checked, but I cannot uncheck it; again, greyed out. Any way to force a permissions change to this drive? This only seemed to happen after updating to 10.5.3 through Software Update. The only thing I haven't tried yet is reinstalling 10.5.3 from a Combo Updater.

When you open the Get Info window for the drive you should see a lock icon in the lower right corner of the window. Click on it, and you should get a dialog in which you authenticate by entering your admin password. You should then be able to uncheck the box to ignore permissions on the drive. Normal drive permissions are:
system with r/w privileges
admin with r/w privileges
everyone read-only
If the drive is only used for data storage you may see different default users such as yourself rather than system with r/w privileges.

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    bgroot422 wrote:
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