> I have no idea what's going on here...why is everything owned by 505?
> Can anybody shed some light on this? Thanks for your help in advance.
505 is a uid...did you recently delete a user (with uid=505).
Anyway to fix this you might do:
su
cd /usr/local
chown -R root:root jdk_116
(replace root:root with your {user-name}:{group-name} if you wish)
-justin