How do I disable root user? Code failed in terminal!

Hi,
I've had numerous problems with my laptop ever since taking it in for repair to change the logic board middle of last year. Since then I've had problems with the RAM (both sticks have had to be changed twice), the logic board changed a second time AND the battery changed. The amount of trips I've had to take to apple stores are ridiculous.
To top it off I noticed that in the activity monitor there are numerous users other than myself running. The majority of users are root followed by _windowserver, _usbmuxd and _netbois. As about 50% of the users are root I decided to take a trip to an apple 'genius' bar to try and turn all users back to admin, the guy didn't have a clue what the root user was and said that it was fine...his answer was to reboot my laptop however my lacie hard drive recently broke and have no where to save my work.
So far ive tried two options to fix this myself but i am getting no where. Ive tried adding the code on the terminal via utilities but it says that its failed (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1636445) And theres no disable option via directory utility. (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US)
Is there any other way I can fix this?
Thanks.

It's normal to have a fair number of processes owned by root.
I should leave them alone if I were you.

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