File Sharing/Applying Permissions/Both Macs CRASHED!!!

Someone Please Help!!!
I'm a 14+ year Microsoft IT Professional. 6 months ago I traded my HP Notebook for a brand new MacBook (White) and for Christmas, traded my HP Entertainment notebook and accessories towards the purchase of a brand new 21.5" iMac! Very happy with decision until about an hour ago.
Today, I purchased a USB 1TB external drive. It's connected to the iMac and was attempting to setup sharing for it. This was so I could finally setup Time Machine and create a backup of my MacBook which included my entire iTunes and iPhoto Library as well as my family website (not yet published).
I had both machines connected to my wireless network and they were talking to each other fine. I was logged on to my wife's account on the iMac (setup as an administrator) and setting up sharing from there. My MacBook was not able to see the External Drive for some reason...which I saw did not have the user permissions setup properly. I added myself to the list, changed the permissions to read/write, then right-clicked to accept permissions. It ran for about 15 seconds then was done.
On the MacBook, I did the same as my wifes account was not set to see the shared resources on the MacBook. However, when I right-clicked to apply permissions, I began to get errors writing the permissions. Was advised of the errors and only able to click OK. I did this for about 25 permissions...then the machine froze. I did a hard reboot and now my MacBook sits at the grey apple startup screen with the gear turning and won't startup. I attempted to log into SafeMode by holding shift until I saw the progress bar under the gear at startup...but after about halfway through, the progress bar disappeared and left with only the apple and gear turning.
On the iMac, my wife's account would not allow me to open Safari or any other programs (the dock icons just bounced and bounced...no options to force quit). I was able to click the Apple logo and restart. Upon restart, I logged back into Wife's account and her desktop was back to default, the external drive did not show as connected on the desktop (but was available in the finder) and her documents and downloads folder icons in the Dock had grey question marks and were not accessible. Nor can I access them in finder. She had just finished updating her iCal earlier today and when we tried to access iCal, it could not find the file for her calendars.
The only positive at this point is that my account is fine. I didnt do anything while on my account and it appears to be working fine.
Being a new Mac user, I have been following the online tutorials and support discussions for anything I havent done before. However, now I have a dead MacBook (with all of my families photos and iTunes music unaccessible) and my wife's documents and information is unaccessible.
Please someone help me to get things back to normal!! All I wanted to do was to backup both machines now that I had the means to and setting that up caused what appears to be an epic crash:(

bstossel wrote:
Someone Please Help!!!
I'm a 14+ year Microsoft IT Professional. 6 months ago I traded my HP Notebook for a brand new MacBook (White) and for Christmas, traded my HP Entertainment notebook and accessories towards the purchase of a brand new 21.5" iMac! Very happy with decision until about an hour ago.
Today, I purchased a USB 1TB external drive. It's connected to the iMac and was attempting to setup sharing for it. This was so I could finally setup Time Machine and create a backup of my MacBook which included my entire iTunes and iPhoto Library as well as my family website (not yet published).
I had both machines connected to my wireless network and they were talking to each other fine. I was logged on to my wife's account on the iMac (setup as an administrator) and setting up sharing from there. My MacBook was not able to see the External Drive for some reason...which I saw did not have the user permissions setup properly. I added myself to the list, changed the permissions to read/write, then right-clicked to accept permissions.
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".
On the MacBook, I did the same as my wifes account was not set to see the shared resources on the MacBook. However, when I right-clicked to apply permissions,
same question as before. what did you right-clicked on and what did you apply permissions to?
I began to get errors writing the permissions.
I'm quite lost at this point. please explain what's going on. I'm not reading the rest of it....
Was advised of the errors and only able to click OK. I did this for about 25 permissions...then the machine froze. I did a hard reboot and now my MacBook sits at the grey apple startup screen with the gear turning and won't startup. I attempted to log into SafeMode by holding shift until I saw the progress bar under the gear at startup...but after about halfway through, the progress bar disappeared and left with only the apple and gear turning.
On the iMac, my wife's account would not allow me to open Safari or any other programs (the dock icons just bounced and bounced...no options to force quit). I was able to click the Apple logo and restart. Upon restart, I logged back into Wife's account and her desktop was back to default, the external drive did not show as connected on the desktop (but was available in the finder) and her documents and downloads folder icons in the Dock had grey question marks and were not accessible. Nor can I access them in finder. She had just finished updating her iCal earlier today and when we tried to access iCal, it could not find the file for her calendars.
The only positive at this point is that my account is fine. I didnt do anything while on my account and it appears to be working fine.
Being a new Mac user, I have been following the online tutorials and support discussions for anything I havent done before. However, now I have a dead MacBook (with all of my families photos and iTunes music unaccessible) and my wife's documents and information is unaccessible.
Please someone help me to get things back to normal!! All I wanted to do was to backup both machines now that I had the means to and setting that up caused what appears to be an epic crash:(
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    I then log in to the newly created network user from newly bound macbook pro.  No errors are reported and I seem to be functioning fine.  I can use Safari.
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    However, when I launch the TextEdit app on the bound client, it appears briefly on the Dock...then crashes with a system error.   I tried to read the error...but it looks greek to me.  I did see something to the effect "operation not permitted...".
    I logoff the bound macbook pro.  go to the server and log in as that newly created local network user.  I get logged in.  I am able to launch Text edit when logged in as the user.  I can add text...save the test file to the document folder.  Everything looks good.  I just cannot seem to log in as the user from both the bound client and the server and have it work normally.
    So...I am obviously not doing something either in the correct order, or not configuring a service correctly...something I am doing wrong. 
    Any suggestions are appreciated.

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