App Store not responding (Mountain Lion)

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I'm having trouble with App Store after reformatting my MBP hard drive and restoring everything from a backup. App Store is unresponsive from launch; as soon as I open it, it goes to a spinning beachball, and Finder identifies it as "not responding." There is a spinning progress meter in the upper-left corner of the window, and all the App Store buttons and text fields are greyed out. I left it running overnight, with no apparent change; Activity Monitor shows it with low but constant level of CPU usage (~0.8%).
History: I had to reformat my MacBook Pro's hard drive after somehow knocking loose a RAM chip a week ago. I reinstalled OSX, and then had to manually restore my Time Machine backup since my external hard drive also got damaged... It's really been a great week Specifically, I stuck the hard drive into a Linux desktop with a SATA cable, used tmfs to copy the most recent backup to a different external hard drive, then copy-and-pasted my home directory back onto my MacBook Pro.
Current status: I just tried reinstalling Mountain Lion, with no luck. Because of all the copy-and-pasting through a Linux filesystem, a lot of my file ownerships and permissions are screwed up, but everything passes a Disk Utility permissions verification and repair. I have also tried deleting ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore, with no effect.
Thanks in advance for any help!

OK, apologies, but I already solved the problem (I think). Console indicated that the problem was actually that the App Store was trying to file a crash report from the previous iteration of killing the process with command-alt-escape, but didn't have permissions to write to the relevant folder (see below). The folder in question had been set to owner 'root' by Ubuntu when I recovered my broken Time Machine drive, so I changed the owner back to myself. App Store opens and operates normally now.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why Disk Utility wasn't able to identify and fix the permissions on these system files and folders. Does anybody know why, and if there's a way for me to batch-fix all of my files that Ubuntu has switched to 'root'?
6/27/13 12:44:00.061 PM xpcd[294]: com.apple.ShareKitHelper[1088]: registration request failed: (0x11, 0x0) NSCocoaErrorDomain:513 You don’t have permission to save the file “com.apple.finder.plist” in the folder “Preferences”.
Dest: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ShareKitHelper/Data/Library/Preferences/com.appl e.finder.plist
Destination permissions info:
0 stat: 2
-1 o:Root m:040755 f:()
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-2 o:Root m:040755 f:()
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-3 o:Root m:040755 f:()
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-4 <CONTAINER> o:User m:040700 f:()
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-5 o:User m:040755 f:()
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-6 <LIBRARY> o:User m:040700 f:hidden
!#acl 1
group:ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEF0000000C:everyone:12:deny:delete
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-7 <HOME> o:User m:040755 f:()
!#acl 1
group:ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEF0000000C:everyone:12:deny:delete
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000
-8 o:Root m:040755 f:()
    fs: hfs, fsid: 1000002/11, mf: 0480d000

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