I figured out what was causing my issue. While I would create the extraction in an application and set it to all applications & give read only to everyone; the user also needs to have at least read only access to the application that the extraction is in.
So I usually create all global objects in the Search application because Splunk 4.1.6 beta has a lot of references to this application so I've had nothing but issues with disabling this app anyway. Then I give all roles at least read only access to the search application.
Another option is to add these to the system app.
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