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I have Moss 2007.  I created a Survey with a few questions.  When a non-admin fills out the survey and clicks the Finish button, they receive a permissions error ("Error: Access Denied", you are currently logged in as ...").  I have tried modifying the Permissions Levels used and I have tried customizing my own Permissions Level.  Unless I give users Full Control permissions, they receive this Access Denied error.  I do not want users to be able to edit or delete records, and certainly don't want them to be able to modify the survey itself.  Contribute permissions yield the same error.

 Has anyone encountered this issue? Found a solution?

Actually, I figured it out thanks to this post. http://wss.collutions.com/Lists/FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=222

When you go into the Survey Settings-->Advanced Settings page, there are Read Access and Edit Access options.  Apparently if you want to control permissions using the Survey Settings-->Permissions For This Survey option, then you need to set these Read Access and Edit Access options to "All Responses" on the Advanced Settings page.  After I did that, then I was able to assign a custom Permission Level to the users of the Survey to prevent Editing and Deleting while allowing Adding records.

What are the custom permission levels that you set.  I followed your instructions but if I give them read access they still cannot complete the survey.  If I give them contibute access then they can modify their responses as well as anyone elses.

 To clarify the fix, in order for someone to take the survey they need to have at least Contributor permission ADD/EDIT permissions, since they need to be able to add thier response to the Survey(List).  If you want to have Anonymous Access for the survey you need to set those permissions also.

You can control what they can edit through the setting in the survey:

Settings > Survey Setting under the General Setting select Advance Settings

Under the Item-Level Permissions you have several options:

Read Access
   All Responses
   Only thier own

Edit Access
  All Responses
  Only thier own
  None