IDVD won't open

Hello, all.
I need help again,please.
I did something here that somehow screwed up Idvd. I went to Get Info of Quicktime player, Flip4mac and Idvd and changed
Ownership & permissions to "read and write". Why?? 'cause I thought that It would solve a few minor issues I had with Quicktime and I felt too confident; I kept going!.
On iDVD get info I did the following:
Ownership & permissions I clicked "read & write
Under Details: Owner I clicked on muy "home" folder name and I don't remember what was there before to click it back on.I do remember reading System under Owner but cannot remember where in the whole Get Info window.
On the right side of the "owner" dropdown menu there is a locked lock; (unlocked doesn't work,I tried)
Access: Read & write
Under group: Faded "admin"
Access: I clicked "no access" And,
Under Other: Read only.
Now, idvd won't open and the idvd icon turned to "application" icon. The ruler,pencil and brush in the shape of letter A. I shows like that on Finder and in the dock. I installed again my iLife'5 package hoping that it would solve the idvd problem but it didn't. Everything works fine except idvd.
What can I do??? I wish I chopped off mi fingers instead of doing something that I wasn't sure about.
I appreciate any help I can get from you guys.
Thank you.

You need to "Repair Permissions" to reset all Apple-Installed packages to their default settings. You can generally do this "live" in 10.3.9. Quit all Applications, launch Disk Utility, select your Boot drive and click "Repair Permissions" and after many scrolling messages and several minutes, all should be set right.
If you want to read about what it is doing, there is a pretty good explanation in this article:
25751- About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature

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