Ron--

User 1 is a special "super admin" role that does not follow normal access control rules, including node access.

Development testing should never be done as user #1 unless testing installation or update routines.  In fact, nothing but install and update should be done as user #1.

See http://drupal.org/node/22284

- Ken Rickard
agentrickard

On 7/26/07, Karoly Negyesi < karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
> user #1 sees all

Yup. user 1 has all possible rights, there is a special check for it so that every kind of access check is TRUE for this user. In this case, node administrators can see all nodes and because user 1 has every right, she is also a node admin.