cron jobs not running

[Willo3092]

ViX 6.0.003

I'm having a problem with a couple of cron timers that I've set not running. I can run them from the ViX script runner with no problems.
Permissions for the scripts in /usr/script/ & /usr/scripts/ and the scripts in cron.hourly/daily are set at 755 and the crontabs root file is also 755.
I've checked /var/log/messages and seeing a lot of errors:

Dec  4 18:53:25 sf8008 authpriv.notice passwd[3317]: pam_unix(passwd:chauthtok): password changed for root
Dec  4 18:53:25 sf8008 authpriv.notice passwd[3317]: pam_smbpass(passwd:chauthtok): password for (root/0) changed by (root/0)
Dec  4 18:53:29 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 18:53:30 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 18:53:44 sf8008 authpriv.info smbd[3412]: pam_unix(samba:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Dec  4 18:54:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 18:54:24 sf8008 authpriv.info smbd[3412]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user root
Dec  4 18:55:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 18:56:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 18:57:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 18:58:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 18:59:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:00:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:01:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:02:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:03:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:04:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:05:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:06:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:07:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:08:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:09:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:10:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:11:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:12:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:13:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:14:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:15:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:16:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:17:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:17:01 sf8008 cron.info CROND[10615]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Dec  4 19:17:01 sf8008 cron.info CROND[10614]: (root) CMDEND (cd / && run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Dec  4 19:18:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:18:43 sf8008 authpriv.info smbd[11141]: pam_unix(samba:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Dec  4 19:19:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:20:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:20:16 sf8008 kern.info kernel: sh (11628): drop_caches: 3
Dec  4 19:20:25 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:28 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:31 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:35 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:37 sf8008 kern.info kernel: sh (11746): drop_caches: 1
Dec  4 19:20:37 sf8008 kern.info kernel: sh (11746): drop_caches: 2
Dec  4 19:20:37 sf8008 kern.info kernel: sh (11746): drop_caches: 3
Dec  4 19:20:37 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:42 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:43 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:20:43 sf8008 kern.warn kernel: proc_vmpeg_0_dst_apply_write 00000001
Dec  4 19:21:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:22:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:23:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:24:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:25:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:26:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:27:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:27:18 sf8008 authpriv.info smbd[11141]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user root
Dec  4 19:27:29 sf8008 authpriv.info smbd[13864]: pam_unix(samba:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Dec  4 19:28:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:29:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:30:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)
Dec  4 19:31:01 sf8008 cron.info crond[2127]: (root) BAD FILE MODE (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root)

Does anyone have any ideas?

messages.log


EDIT: It seems to be something to do with my /etc/cron/crontabs/root file. I've deleted it and set my jobs up manually in the cron timer plugin and seems to be running.
Maybe the one in my settings backup is corrupted in some way but it looks okay?

@reboot /usr/script/skyscraper.sh
@reboot /usr/script/skypicker.sh
0 */3 * * * /usr/script/skyscraper.sh
7,22,37,52 * * * * /usr/script/skypicker.sh