Locked Out-no boot

Hi people .. using the laptop to post this
My Desktop .. I have 2 OSX on 2 different HDD.
HDD 1 is Tiger, the other is Leopard on HDD 2.
FCP was giving me problems in Tiger, so I booted
Leopard to work in that system. FCP was working well.
But I couldn't render or save because I didn't have permissions.
So, I did the permissions thing and rebooted. Same thing happened.
Access denied .. you do not have correct permission .. (something like that)
I used the help menu to correct the issue. Followed the path and changed
the permissions in the accounts area of the INFO panel.
An alert came up saying .. this will change all within the selected folder.
This action can not be undone.
So .. what the heck .. I pushed the button ..
After a while of churning .. it stopped and it was then I found I was
locked out. (Of Everything) .. Now I can't even boot up ..
I put the Leopard disc in to boot of the disc .. No good .. won't boot.
I cant even get the thing to boot off Tiger, on the No.1 HDD ...
because it is not selected as the boot disc. No keyboard control at all.
Do I have to remove the No.2 HDD and force it to boot off Tiger ?
(do some swapping of cables etc ..) or is there an easier way ?
+ what's the go with Leopard not giving the admin or owner (me)
permissions.
Seems FCP was not the only App affected (if my memory is correct)
Any help ?? ... Please ..
Regards
Mark

Hello again.
Problem solved. I disconnected HDD 2, swapped the cables and got the Leopard Disc to boot.
Then got the Start up disc to Boot on Tiger.
Then to Disc Utilities to Repair Disc Permissions and Repair disc for the Tiger Volume.
After making sure Tiger Boots ok .. I installed Leopard again as a
new install. Archiving the old system, then dumping it after to gain disc space.
This time, I will take the time to configure all the apps and hope it never
happens again.
Lets have another go...
Don't know if this helps anyone else, but it was the only way to battle the beast
Cheers everyone
Mark

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