Is it possible for a site owner's user account to **ever** have a permissions issue? I continually read posts like this:


  This may sound dumb, but have you set the proper permissions to use it? I spent a good two hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong before realizing I hadn't checked the '[whatever]' box.


As a Han-Solo of D-developers, I never think of permissions, but at desperate moments when Views repeats the same imperious error, doubt creeps in. Could it be permissions?
User #1 only bypasses user_access(); if something runs its own access calls, and doesn't call user_accces(), that user won't get any special handling.