Can't boot ! (I killed my new Mac)

I am a meat-head Windows user just switching to Mac.... and I killed it within a day.
I was poking around in the sharing/permission section of my Macbook Air drive. There were three sections... [System, Administrator and Everyone] I set System and Admin to have read/write access, but set "everyone" to not have access... assuming this meant public. (hence the meat-head) Now it will not boot. Support told me that when I set "everyone" access to none, I took away the computers access to its own drive. Now... I know Windows does silly stuff like press start to stop... but I am a little bummed about the terminology in my mac and how easy it was to kill the computers access to itself. I do not have a super-drive and connot get one for a few days. Is there any way to fix this permission issue via command line or any other super-genious ideas?
Thank you very much in advance...

Well... Thank you very much. It looks like I may be getting somewhere...
Currently my system is in an endless cycle of repeating a list of errors, then blue screen, then the errors...
It is so fast, I cannot read them well, but watching about 50 cycles I was able to get this:
(Error) Import: importer start failed for -2 invalid destination port
(Error) com.apple.launchd[1} posix spawnp ..... no such file or directlry...
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