Hmm. Still having some weird issues. VLC won't install properly. Keeps giving me a "file can't be read or written" problem. When I use disk utility to repair permissions, it shows a bunch of errors that it has repaired, but then when I check permissions again, the same errors are there. Everything else I've installed seems to be working properly.

Is there any way to find out which file VLC is bombing out on when I copy it into the applications folder? perhaps a log file somewhere?

EDIT: I've re-downloaded VLC 4 times, so I'm pretty sure the source file is not the problem.