unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

[Andy Firman]

I can't figure out why, when I unpack something like 
awstats-6.2.tgz it gives me this:

# tar xvzf awstats-6.2.tgz
# ls -al
drwx------   5 1007     513         512 Nov  6 06:03 awstats-6.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel    860606 Nov  6 06:26 awstats-6.2.tgz

I have used vipw to get rid of a bunch of users and am wondering
if that is a problem.  User 1007 does not even exist. 
There is a group 513.

Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership?

What am I doing wrong?


Andy