l3ehindblue3yes

I am a new site member and I was trying to edit my options as to enable private messaging. For whatever reason each time I attempt to do so the following comes up:

l3ehindblue3yes, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Neither of those reasons apply to me. I have activated my account and this is my first posting so I doubt an administrator has disabled it. Also, I was trying to edit my own settings, not anyone else's. Can somebody please help me with this. I have a private question I wanted to ask and I found someone on here who had answered a similar question before and I really would like to send them a message. This is a question that is very personal and has to do with my one year old son so I'd rather not post it on a board. Any help on enabling my private messaging would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.