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Well I finally had the time to fiddle with my vista problem - I was unable to create or edit anything except folders. While I realized that this was a permissions problem, all attempts to adjust permissions to allow access to my own files would not work. Apparently, even as an administrator, I don't have full control over any folders except for perhaps the desktop and "My Documents", and from what I understand, in Vista these are actually junctions not folders.

So, the solution that worked for me, is that I downloaded a little registry hack, that lets you easily, yet time-consumingly, take control over a folder/file. Here is the url for the hack:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/