Repairing permissions

[ouxly40]

I upgraded from 10.5.5 with iDeneb to 10.5.8 and after trying several different combination got it to restart. Almost everything is working as before. Never have got my ADI1986 sound to work but I have the SB USB sound unit and it works perfectly. 3 things have changed and I spent several hours each of the last 3 nights reading posts looking for a fix. On install I checked the ADI1986 fix but still doesn't work. If I boot Windows XP from the boot menu ( I have 6 bootable HDDs - each with a different OS, though 2 of them are Leopard) USB works and sound works.

 

First is a problem with USB, as before when I put a USB flash drive in it used to mount it as a hard drive and was completely usable. Now it acts as if I didn't put it in at all. Printer worked fine before and now it only works if I turn on the printer and then reboot.

 

Second, when I run the installation disk and use Disk Utility to verify permissions it finds a lot of errors tells me what they are and what they should be. Then I run repair permissions and it goes thru the procedure. Afterwards I verify again and the same problems are there. Most errors are pertaining to IONETWORKING kexts. What it says it is actually and should be are almost identical except the should be all have an :L: in front of them

 

Third, after I migrated the applications from the other OS that works perfectly - I have a red circle with a minus (no permission) on many of my folders. Using get info, clicking the lock and changing permissions there has no effect. I can boot from 10.5.3 on another drive and access these folders without problem.

 

These may all be related and if someone would walk me through using terminal to fix permissions I may get this fully functional. I followed a procedure I found to fix permissions but just got errors. I reset the root password so that is not an issue.The board is an ASUS P5GL-MX which is basically an Intel 915 board and has GMA900 graphics. Graphics are great! QE is on and no artifacts.