How to fix permissions?

Hi,
I'm afraid I might have followed bad advice to solve a problem, which then got me into serious problems. Here's my "story":
I'm running Mac OSX 10.9.1 on an iMac (2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo). The computer is used by the whole family, so we have 6 user accounts.
Initial problem: The system requested an admin password every time I wanted to move an item to trash or away from the desktop.
After a bit of searching, I did the following:
Chose the Macintosh HD in a finder window.
Chose "Get info" and the Permissions-section.
Highlighted "System" and selected Apply all enclosed folders (this text might be slightly different in English, I run my system in Norwegian language)
This seemed to work, as I no longer need to type password for deleting/moving files. BUT NEW MAJOR PROBLEMS:
Now all other user accounts doesen't work properly any more:
No icons are visible on desktop of the other users
Finder windows on other user accounts closes by them selves whenever I try to do something
So first I went back to the user account in line nuber 2 above, where I had made the permission changes
Chose the Macintosh HD in a finder window.
Chose "Get info" and the Permissions-section.
Highlighted "System" and selected Reset changes (or whatever the bottom choice is in English)
No luck - problem still there
Ran Disk Utility, repair permissions twice - still no luck...
So if anyone have qualified suggestions on how to get the permissions right, please let me know.
Thanks a lot!!
Eldar
(Needless to say, but anyway: unqualified guesses are really not needed, as that's what escalated the problems from just having to type password to having 5 useless user accounts...)

Hi,
considering your "background history", repairing the permissions was not a bad idea.
However, as explained in "About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature", repairing the Permissions with Disk Utility does not affect user data.
Here is what I can think about
1. I already had issues with Disk Utility not performing as expected, while its command line counterpart never failed for me. I then suggest you to try repair permissions using Terminal
diskutil list
(will give you all the volumes in your system with their disk identifiers)
Then
diskutil repairPermissions DISK_IDENTIFIER (e.g. diskutil repairPermissions disk0s2)
2. Although your fist actions should not have changed these, you can also reset the ACL for each user.
(By the way, this Mac OS X 10.5 issue sounds like yours, and resetting ACLs is a listed option -> http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1334).
In Mavericks, however, you will have to
- restart you system on the Recovery partition (holding CMD + R during boot)
- once booted, select your language
- in the menu bar, select "Tools" -> Terminal
- in Terminal, enter "resetpassword" then hit enter
- in the Reset Password Utility, select your drive, then select the user that has issues
- do not enter a new password, just click the Reset ACL button at the buttom.
- restart your system and test that user
3. You also may find useful information and tips in this Apple document:
"Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X"

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