For some reason after I download openoffice and extract the files I cannot execute the setup.exe.  It says "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file.  You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

Well no big deal because I can execute setup.exe directly from WinRAR and it extracts and executes fine.  Well I cannot delete the folder that I extracted all the files to.  Tells me it is currently in use or is protected.  Well I've restart my computer a few times, booted up in safe mode, logged on as administrator and it still won't delete. I tried deleting with Norton's Erase utility and still won't work. 

I check the properties of the box and it says read-only and I uncheck it and it still won't work.  Any idea's on how to delete these files?

By the way I've extracted it several times and even on other computers and it gives me the same problem on all of them.

so the only problem is the FOLDER, not even the files in the folder?

what is the name of the folder? i cant figure out WHY it possibly would have become a system protected folder, makes no sence.

so

you probably need to aquire ownership of the folder, that is the most likely thing that has happened. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

If all else fails . . .you can try this. search for sfcfiles.dll, rename (both) to sfcfilesBAK.dll , then see if you can delete the folder. return the sfcfiles.dll back when our done, this is only a test.

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The only thing I found at Microsoft's site was this and I already have full Control/admin Privileges on my account. 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298345

Strange thing now you said something I can rename the folder but I can't delete it.  

Well I found out that it created it's own user account and blocked me from doing everythign including executing the setup.exe file.  Very strange for a program to do that.  I went under security and had to change the ownership back to me and then I assigned myself as a user, denied access to the previous user, and gave myself permissions.