FreePBX/Asterisk/Centos permissions/ownership

I downloaded and installed your ISO package for Centos 5.7/Asterisk 1.8.12/freepbx 2.10. I am having trouble deleting vm's when logged in to the user portal. after researching for days for a reason I have discovered a difference in the older asterisks 1.4 and my version. in the old version asterisks is the owner of everything that has to do with asterisk but in my new version everything is owned by root. Is this design on purpose or a bug? if this is by design then please tell me why I cannot delete VMs unless I go in to the command line interface of Centos.. if this is a bug please tell me how I can correct the ownerships.