I am unable to change permissions of applications in Monterey

Also, I went into Users & Groups, my Admin name and then Advanced Options and have this listed,

Shouldn't the Login Shell have "/bin/zsh" listed? I am nervous about making changes since I am not a software person, but am wondering if the last time I updated my OS (last few OSs) that something did not change that was suppose to.

I appreciate all the help on my issues of Permissions and adding people to my Contacts App. I, somehow, was able to do something that lets me add contacts to my Contacts app. Doing things in Safe mode and in Recovery mode did not do any good so did some resetting. First, I did a SMC and PRAM resets. When I booted again I had a notification for a macOS update, so I loaded Monterey 12.3.1. Then I followed some instructions from an online article about changing/resetting permissions in Catalina 10.15 and new OSs. I went into Recover mode, opened "Terminal" from the utilities menu and typed "repairHomePermissions," which gave me the Repair Home app, selected my User ID Admin account and clicked next, then exit. Then while in Recovery mode, I reinstalled macOS Monterey. After all that the iMac eventually came back up. I immediately went to my Contacts (and a few other programs) to check my permissions only to find that I still did not have the ability to change Permissions on anything. However, I found out that I was able to add contacts to my Contacts. That was the issue that started this whole thing. I had added a couple contacts on my iPad and later saw the same entrees had sync'd to my iMac Contacts list. That's when I added some more contacts in the iMac, so all is well now, except for the permissions issue. Which I will not mess with until I find a solution.

Thanks

Yes, mine does look like yours. Guess I am out of luck.

That didn't do it. I had gone into Safe mode a number of times. I tried changing my permissions in Safe Mode also, but that did not work either.

Yes, once I realized that it may all be based on my permissions, I wanted to see if there were any new ideas on how to solve this issue with my Contacts.