Macintosh HD read only?? Cant see any user files???

Was working on a late 2009 iMac/OS 10.6 the other day with the oddest problem. Apparently my friend was updating to 10.6.7 and the iMac kernel panicked on him. It left the mac unable to boot. Booted from the DVD and ran disk utility, the drives index and b-tree catalogs were messed up and Disk Utility could not repair it. It told me to back up my files and reformat.
Ok not a problem there, I had a 3tb HDD hooked up and attempted to just cp -R the entire User folder from the Macintosh HD to the firewire hdd. Only took like a second to copy and what do you know there were no files in the folder at all. I guessed it had something to do with permissions being wierd since I was booted from the dvd so I installed 10.6 onto the firewire drive and booted off that. I can see the internal drive just fine, and Finder even says that the Users folder is 78gb, but his user folder is completely empty when you look into it. Its completely missing any sort of read permissions so you cant even view the files in the directory. I can see the top level username folder but nothing inside.
I tried to use chmod (and even sudo chmod) to change the entire folders permissions to 777 but terminal just tells me the drive is 'read only' and I cant change anything. My last step I did was basically used Disk Utility to make a dmg of his internal hd and copied it to the external since I had to format his internal drive and get things working. I did check Ignore Ownership On This Volume but that didnt help either. It wont even let me mess with the users permissions that the drive has at all, theyre all greyed out.
Now inside the dmg, I STILL have the same problem of having 78gb in his user folder that I cant do anything with at all, or even see for that matter.
Is there ANYTHING I can try that I havent yet that will allow me to get to his files? Its a bunch of ProTools stuff so its rather important to him. I guess worst case scenario I can try and restore the dmg to a drive or just mount it, and just look at it over the network with a Windows machine.. Would that work or is there something I can do to keep it all done on the Mac itself??

Just to clarify — have you actually tried to load tracks into your Shuffle, using either Autofill or by dragging music or playlists to it in the Source list?
I don't understand you characterize what you tried as a 'mistake'. I use my iPS in just that way and have changed back and forth several times, i.e., from all tracks to all data to mixes of both, with zero problems. It clearly works, and is far from 'useless' for carrying data.
The Shuffle has to be mounted and connected, of course, with iPod > Preferences available. Uncheck the "Disk Use" box and reset the slider, then click on Save. You will normally be able to Autofill from that point, as I did just last evening, slotting in the next 100-odd tracks of music.
OTOH, I have also seen your 'stuck' storage indication one time before. In my case it happened right after I tried using a friend's old laptop PC as a recharging station, which resulted in some other unusual indications from the Shuffle. I eventually had to Restore iot 'regain' the lost memory, and that is the same fix that has been reported as successful by others in this forum.
I can't quite follow your last para. on your own attempts at restoring. If you are doing it according to the Apple instructions and guidance (see the iPod Shuffle Support Page, among other sources) then that would have told you to use a current iPod Updater program and would have given you the exact steps to use.

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