This was both a client level backup/restore problem, and a XP permissions problem.
When the machine was first installed, they used the TSM 5.2 client, which fixed a few scheduler problems with windows. When the machine was reinstalled the admin installed an older version of the TSM client (5.1.4). I assume that this is the type of error you will see when you attempt to restore files backed up with the newer client with an older client. The second problem went away when the user restored the files to something other than the original location. There must have been some Windows ACLs that were causing that. thanks to all that replied! bob
