"Read-only files

From: Terri (tearose_at_usa.net)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:24:01 -0700

I have saved a lot of information on disks etc from a
marketing group I belong to. I now want to go back and
retreive some of this info & flyers, change info to my
business and save. It seems all of these files are now
marked "read-only" and I can't do anything with them. I
haven't done anything that would make these read-only
files except switch to windows 2000 this year. What is
happening and how can I fix it? I have gone through
books, help etc looking at setting permissions, but
nothing has worked.