Completely locked out of my 2 Firewire Drives Please Help

Hi
Both my drives have this infamous lock icon on them, as a result of me applying permissions to the contents of the various system related folders.
I have tried running these
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"MOVIES STORAGE BACKUP"
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"MOVIES STORAGE BACKUP"
This is what i got:-
sudo: /private/etc/sudoers is mode 0600, should be 0440
I got the same result after doing both the commands.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, Thanks Very much for the reply.
I got into this situation by applying a permission change to the whole of the Macbook folder, i dont really know what you would call it but the one containing all the system, library and other system files. Here is the result i got
james-pipers-macbook:~ cablemaster$ ls -aldeO /etc/sudoers
-rw-------+ 1 root wheel - 1135 24 Sep 2007 /etc/sudoers
0: user:jamespiper allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
1: group:admin allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity

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