Desktop appears to be Read Only - Permissions issue

I believe I have an issue with Permissions that has caused me to lose access to the Dock and items on the Desktop. I was having an issue with my external FW Drive and was doing some troubleshooting with it. At one point I restarted the entire system and when it came back up there was a message I had never seen before. It was asking me to hold the power button until it restarted. The message was in several different langauges in the middle of the screen That was a new one to me. I was not able to get past that point
I decided to try the Disk Utility on the OS X CD. I only had the 10.2 CD and couldn't find my 10.3 I ran the Repair Permissions and it fixed about 10 items. The Disk itself was coming back as OK.
After a restart, I could move the mouse, but did not have the Dock and could not click on anything on the Desktop. I basically had to get around by using the Recently Used Apps list.
I think it messed up the permissions somehow and I need to change them back. I was able to get around to enable Root access per the Apple docs. Now I just need to get the permissions correct.
I updated the Hard Drive and my Desktop to verify that all entries had R+W. I also upsdated my entire user folder (house icon) to give R+W to the Group and Others.
I'm still not getting access.
Anyone else seen this?
Would this have been caused by using the 10.2 CD instead of 10.3?
Does anyone know where the different Group names are established? For example, one of them is called "Wheel". What does that reference?
Thanks.
G4 Digital Audio Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I tried to adjust the permissions a little more and run the Disk Utility, but it didn't help. I went ahead and made the upgrade to 10.4 and that fixed it. I'm not really sure if there would have been another way to fix it, but that was probably the easiest.
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