After restore I can see etc, tmp and var.

I have a G5DP1.8 with 2 internal hard drives.
I cleaned one drive off, then used Apple Disk Utility's restore feature to copy the main drive to the freshly cleaned dive. After rebooting to the new drive, I can see the etc, var and tmp directories. They are no longer hidden. Theey also have a small upturned arrow in the lower left corner as if they are aliases.
How do I make them invisible to the system again?

Use the instructions in this article to hide the folders; steps 4 through 7 can also be done on your hard disk.
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They should be symlinks.
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lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Apr 12 2008 /tmp -> private/tmp/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Apr 12 2008 /var -> private/var/
Notice that the first letter of the permissions field is 'l' (lowercase L), which indicates this is a Unix symbolic link.
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dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 1 Jul 5 12:08 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 root wheel hidden 238 Jun 7 19:43 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 66 root wheel hidden 2244 Jun 4 19:23 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel hidden 374 Jun 30 00:16 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 var -> private/var
As you can see...
private/var
private/tmp
private/etc
do not have the hidden flag. I have tried to run this command with no luck on all 3:
sudo chflags hidden /private/var
sudo chflags hidden /private/tmp
sudo chflags hidden /private/etc
No luck. I put in my password and restart the finder/cpu and these folders still remain visible. Anyone have any suggestions?

*Hi Tim. Looks like I do have the developer tools but for some reason maybe not that one tool. So I downloaded your file (thank you so much for allowing me to download it and for uploading it) and put it on my desktop as you suggested. Still no luck. The files still appear eventhough the commands went through.*
*See below (my terminal window afterwards)*
roberts-imac:~ Robert$ sudo ~/Desktop/SetFile -a V /private/tmp
roberts-imac:~ Robert$ sudo ~/Desktop/SetFile -a V /private/etc
roberts-imac:~ Robert$ sudo ~/Desktop/SetFile -a V /private/var
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drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin - 1224 Jul 5 11:34 .
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-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel hidden 10742313 Jun 9 19:37 mach_kernel.ctfsys
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 1 Jul 5 14:52 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 root wheel hidden 238 Jun 7 19:43 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 66 root wheel hidden 2244 Jun 4 19:23 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel hidden 374 Jun 30 00:16 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 var -> private/var
*For some reason the entries below do not change:*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 tmp -> private/tmp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 var -> private/var
*I've noticed that the folders that are hidden start with an "l" and the others start with a "d". (example below)*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 11 Jun 4 09:04 var -> private/var (example 1)
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel hidden 374 Jun 30 00:16 usr (example 2)
*Any other guesses??? Appreciate your help on this.*
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