Note: read-only score file; entry discarded

["Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net>]

Using Gnus v5.11 on GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of
2007-08-02 on t40.  

I am getting the above message and can't understand why.  I am not
really sure when the message began but I realized it when I tried to
manually lower the score for a particular sender.  I have checked the
permissions on each of the SCORE and ADAPT files and they are all
currently 666.  I have within the last few months done a reinstall of
Debian so, thinking this might be an issue with users and groups I have
done a chown rdc.rdc on the SCORE and ADAPT files.  All the score files
have the following lines:

 (mark-and-expunge -1)
 (read-only nil)
 (adapt t)

and I have made sure that it is valid elisp as far as parens go.  

I am not really sure where else to look.  Any help would be
appreciated.  

Thanks,
rdc
-- 
Robert D. Crawford                                      rdc1x@comcast.net

So this is it.  We're going to die.