changing regions

Hi all

Im trying to change the region in the spearfish data base in order to display
some thing . The region is outside the default region . I get a message to the
effectt that I cant write the current region (using g.region) . I've tried
changing the protections on WIND , DEFAULT_WIND , windows and PERMANENT and
still no luck ( Im not the owner of these files) . Any ideas ?

Thanks

Harri Kiiveri