Apply Permissions to Enclosed Items has hidden my files!!

I have been having issues sharing folders on my external hard drive, which is connected to my MacBook. The folders have been added as shared through my system preferences menu, and the users and permissions don't seem to be a problem. Alas, sharing these folders is still giving me trouble.
While trying to trouble-shoot this issue, I (apparently foolishly) right clicked on one of the folders (Movies) and selected 'Apply Permissions to Enclosed Items'. Ever since doing this, all of the files within that folder are no longer viewable...every subfolder is now EMPTY. I have confirmed that the files are still on the drive and haven't been deleted, but I can not access any of them from my MacBook which is a major problem.
How can I revert whatever settings/permissions I altered by clicking 'Apply Permissions to Enclosed Items'??
Details:
MacBook - OSX 10.7.2
SeaGate HDD formatted as NTFS, running on Mac via Paragon NTFS
Thanks so much for any help!!

Why has it done this
Becuase you changed all the permissions denying you the ability to delete the files.
and how do I stop it?
Boot into Recovery: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
Go to the Utilities menu and select Terminal
At the prompt, type resetpassword and hit return.
When the password reset uitility loads,
Select your Hard Drive
Select the affected User
Click the Reset home folder permissions and ACLs button.
Quit the utility and restart normally from the main menu in Recovery.

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HD1: Systemdisk, OSX 10.7.5
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HD3: Studiodisk, OSX 10.6.8
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My Terminal experience is limited to copy/paste basically…
I guess I see myself booting from the OSX install disk, typing commands in Terminal that sets exact ownership and permissions to all files on a disk giving me access to them, then in Disk Utilities Repairing permissions to give the system files back their right permissions.
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bstossel wrote:
Someone Please Help!!!
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right-clicked to accept permissions? what do you mean by that? you don't have to right-click on anything when you are changing permissions on something. did you perhaps use "apply to enclosed items" to propagate permissions to everything inside? please clarify.
It ran for about 15 seconds then was done.
same question. changing permissions is instantaneous unless you use "apply to enclosed items".
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same question as before. what did you right-clicked on and what did you apply permissions to?
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I'm quite lost at this point. please explain what's going on. I'm not reading the rest of it....
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