I was able to solve the problem by changing my permissions in System -> Administration -> Users and Groups. After upgrading from Karmic, my user was set to custom permissions, with about half of the boxes unchecked. I changed the permissions to the Administrator preset and that seems to have taken care of the problems for me.
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