Everytime i try to transfer files from my windows partition to my Ubuntu partition (as a user) i have to manually go into all the files and re-check all the "write" permissions. The REAL annoying part is that i can't just give write-permissions to a folder and have ALL the files inside altered....

I have to go all the way into every sub folder and edit the permissions to give me the ability to write to the files.

Is there a way to give every file in a folder the same permissions without having to change them all individually (and individually, i mean mass-selecting files themselves. Why can't i just give the permissions to the folder and have them applied to every file/sub-folder contained within?

Because it's a security issue.
From a command line you can:
chmod -R 744 <dir name>
(optionally you can cd into the dir and):
chmod 644 *
Also check your "umask" this tells newly created files which permissions to have.

Cool, thanx, i'll give it a try (once i get my Ubuntu working again, that is.... i should've have played around with the graphix drivers. ATI and linux are not friends.....)