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I'm trying to set-up my windows media partition so that everyone can access it and play media, but only root can make changes.

ie. I desire:
In my fstab it currently looks like this:
and the permissions look accordingly:

I think you mean:

Try adding the following to your fstab:

The two entries you have are removing read write access for everybody except the owner.

You can create user mappings with the NTFS-3G driver between Windows and Linux to give you some flexibility in managing permissions at a more granular level. Have a look at:

http://b.andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/usermap.html

Hope this helps.