Killed extended attributes in Lion- now files are exec :(

Hey all.
I've been trying to migrate data to a new RAID setup, but have been running into the error code 36 issue where Mac created invisible files are killing the file transfers.
At any rate, I tried about three different directory cleanup utilities and for the most part got almost all the data to move. Now I'm onto the last bit which was giving me permissions errors as well. I used Batchmod to make everything read write and I ALSO CLEARED THE XTARS. Worked like a charm and everthing transfered. HOWEVER...
Killing the extened attributes of the files turned them all into Executible files with no program ownership. BTW, there are font files so there are hundreds of them.
Is there anyway to re-assign them or get some of the attributes back?
Any help would be much appreciated.
thanks!

Those were old-style fonts with the data in the resource fork. By removing it, you destroyed them. Restore from backups.

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