Inspiron 6400 nightmare: Read-only attribute on My Documents

I've only had the computer for 2 weeks.

First of all, the first thing I notice upon its arrival is, the keyboard is in English. The idiot salesman and customer service representative both tell me this model is not available with a Spanish language keyboard, and the option on the website that states otherwise refers to an external keyboard which I did not express interest in purchasing. This is bull****, since the idiot salesman asked me if I wanted my keyboard and OS in Spanish, and I said yes. I am a translator based in Mexico. I need my foreign characters. Still, the truth is this computer was such a bargain, I chose to accept it and work with the language bar set to Spanish, even if the symbols confuse me every now and then, and writing html code is a nightmare without handy < > symbols. That does not mean I'm not filing a formal complaint against Dell for its shady consumer practices.

Then I found my entire My Music folder is set to read only. I couldn't go through one song without iTunes complaining about it. I changed it back through right-clicking on it countless times, and it would set itself back to read only. I tried manually changing the attributes using CMD.exe, still reset them back to read only. I created a new folder and moved all of My Documents to it, since I was told this would reset all attributes and lose the read-only one, and guess what? Not only is My Music read-only, now every folder in the new My Documents folder is too.

Is this thing possessed or am I doing something mind-blowingly wrong?

 

what other changes have you made to the computer besides installing itunes?

 

I installed, then uninstalled Adobe Photoshop CS2, then installed Photoshop CS. Other than that, I haven't done anything but work on it. The first time I got a "not enough privileges" error message from iTunes I was ripping a CD.

Do you think I should do a system restore? I've never done one... If I were to, would I lose the documents I've created since the date I choose to restore the system to and today?

 

are you not an 'administrator' on your computer ?

 

Did you clean install the OS when you got it?
If you didn't that might be the problem.
My language is set to Japanese and no problem at all.

 

To me it sounds like an iTunes issue. Try googling "not enough privileges" with iTunes or posting on an iTunes forum. iTunes probably needs to upgrade or re-install.

Good Luck