Permissions broken

Ran into a problem on a Win2003 server. I went to change the access
permissions on a top level directory, and the file permission & ownership
inheritance broke. Now all the subdirectories and files have no permissions
and no owners. There's a hundred subdirectories and thousands of files.

Looked the problem up in MS Knowledgebase. There was something similar (not
exactly the same cause). Their workaround was to open up the permissions
window on the main directory, make a change, and check a box saying to have
all subdirectories and objects inherit the change. This workaround seems to
work on the subdirectories, but not the files. An error message pops up for
each file saying "access denied". I am running under a domain admin ID. I
can assign the permissions and owner manually for a file, but there's
thousands of files.

Any suggestions on how to get permissions and owners back to what they're
supposed to be?


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