Fatal Trash Deletion - My Mini is Dead!

So, I have tried everything. PRam reset; fsck -fy; etc...
In verbose boot-up I get all kinds of kernel errors (e.g. it fails to register service "com.apple.kernelextensionsserver"; it says "matching fails".
There are many "matching fails"
This happened when I was securely deleting trash, and the system froze, so I did the typical panacea for macs -- the force-quit / shut down -- and it has never recovered.
The last line in verbose mode is that ".../nortonautoprotect.kextcache"): not a directory.
In single user mode, it appears that everything is there as would be if the GUI layer booted (as it does not). However, when I try and 'cd' to those directories/files, I get a 'not a directory' response.
A UNIX authority has suggested that this could be a permissions problem.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!
MEH

this is a forward to a person I have looking at it right now, and it seems there is some symmetry between what happened on my mac, and what my new macbook imported. this symmetry is significant because the 'transfer' function on the mac registered this transfer of my personal account as 'a ok'
I tried to run one of Norton's programs (live update for virus scan) and, although the icons were there, and the app started, and gave me some GUI, when I tried to ACTUALLY update it (clicking on the 'update everything now' icon), it said that i was 'missing crucial parts of the program' (OS X warning), and should 'consider re-installing'.
-mike

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