Does anyone know how you keep a folder or a file's properties not Read Only. Everytime I uncheck Read Only on a file or folders properties then click ok, when I check the properties again Read Only is always checked. How do I stop this. These are files that are safe to delete so I am not worried about deleting something I shouldn't.

   I think that is one of those WinXP "features".  I do not have a problem with the files.  If I take off the read-only attribute, it stays off (in fact, all of my files do not have the read-only attribute checked).
   But the folders are a different story.  They stay marked as read-only as you have described.  The folder being read-only does not affect the files in it.  As far as I can tell, there is no problem in deleting the folders also, so I am not sure what affect the folder being read-only has.

I do not have a problem with this either. However I have noticed that if you do have a file in a folder the folder will remain 'READ ONLY' until you delete everything in the folder. After that it should delete. At least it does on my computer. It you want to delete the folder you will either have to move its contents to a new folder or delete the files until it it empty. This seems to work for me most of the time anyway.