Thank You QuiteTall for your post!

It was the top Google hit when I searched on the error I found in my Console system log, and did the trick. Thanks!

I Found This Useful: Error message in OSX Console - Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root

Looks like an interesting blog, from someone using OSX (like me), interested in security (like me), and who has a Synology product (like me) - and this is just from reading his last few posts. I think I'll Follow! :)

chris

[edit 5/27/2011 11:40 AM]
in case the blog ever disappears, the command I needed to run on the root of my OSX drive, to fix the fact that I was the owner, was:
sudo chown root:admin /