How to Restore my Privacy Settings on Mac OS X?

Hi everyone, my mate had changed my privacy settings including Master Computer/Admin settings on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard (bought in Sept. 2009 in NY) while I was a away, and obviously now I cant access it anymore. He doesn't remember exactly what he had changed, but when I turn the macbook on, I can't even get it to the password entry point - it is just a big black screen and nothing else.
Is there anything I can do to to solve this situation by myself since I am currently living in a very remote village in Asia where the closest drugstore is hundreds of miles away, let alone an Apple Store?
Thank you very much for you help.

Thank you for your tip, fane, but it didn't work .
I tried it three times, but what ended up happening is that the spinning gear appeared for the first 5-10 seconds, then the monitor went blank for another 4-5 seconds, then back to the spinning gear, and back to the blank screen...and this seemed to go for 2 and half minutes, unitl i gave up and tried rebooting it and trying it again.
From what my mate tells me, he apparently changed the settings in the privacy bar, from like 'read and write' to 'no access' (or something like that) to public, and on, and on putting stricter modes of access for anyone but me, the owner, thinking that this will help me save my (more or less) sensitive data from public better.
I dont know what to do at all, and I'd be most grateful if you would suggest anything else...because I wont be able to get to an apple support place unitl later this year...yet I need my laptop back asap...
PS
I can see why you'd think "azeri buddhist" to be an axymoron of a sort, but it's really not because I'm an azeri (Turkish) by ethnicity but buddhist by conviction; and since i couldn't come up with anything fancy for my user name, i chose this one.
thank you.

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