regular users cannot set date and time

[solrac]

Ever since Apple forced me to switch to a regular admin user by making iTunes 3 incompatible with the root user, I've been having many problems.

One is that the Installer application no longer works. No matter what it tries to install, it stops and says "Cannot set file attributes". Root has no problem installing.

Date and Time is messed up. Root has no problem setting the date, or using a network time server. But any other user ... well.. the app is messed up. If root chose to use network time, then other users cannot change the date even if they uncheck network time. (And unchecking takes a LONG time with the spinning ball!) Or if root has unchecked network time, then regular users can check it, but it will make no difference... the date will still be editable but no matter what they try to set, it will ignore and keep whatever the date was.

I'm gonna bitch at Apple until they help me solve this for free because I paid $49 for iTunes help and their only solution was "stop using root". So they have to help me fix these little problems unless someone here knows the answer??