New SSD, but LOTS of Permissions Problems

Question

I have installed a new SSD drive alongside my 1.5TB spinning drive on my 24" 2009 iMac 2.93GHz. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to move my everything except my User account over to the new 60GB SSD.
I originally assigned the User's folder on the old drive using the Users & Groups User/Advanaced Options window to change the Home directory, but that resulted in unrecoverable crashes and I had to reinstall the OS three times until I finally left my old files on the old drive and just ran my Applications on the new drive, keeping everything else on the old drive, but not connected as a "user".
However I've run into a ton of permissions problems with every file I open and many programs that access thos files and have done this so far to fix it:
Run resetpassword on both drives in terminal when I rebooted to the Mac OS X install disk (Lion).
Run Drive Genius' repair permissions utility.
Run Disk Utility's repair permissions.
I continue to have issues with every file I use on the old drive, so I'm at a loss to fix this in place. I did read somewhere that moving your files to another drive, then reformatting then moving back can by default fix any permissions issues, so am considering this as a fix:
Move files on the old 1.5TB drive, folder-by-folder to an external drive.
Reformat the "old" internal 1.5TB.
Recopy everything on that external back on to my 1.5TB drive.
Run Repair permissions on both drives.
This isn't fast or elegant, but I want the issue fixed. I don't want to have to open "info" on every file I use and check and change every file permission before I can use it!
Any input on whether or not this is a real fix or is there a better one?
Thanks!
JoeL
Atlanta, GA

Answer 1

May not have anything to do with your issue but often
the master disk image loaded on your hard disk before
it leaves the factory has old (and/or odd) bits of
code on it. Plus the transfer is done as fast as
possible. Last they do not zero and erase the drive
before putting the image on it, so if there are bad
sectors they may not be marked as such and may be in
use (& corrupted).
As you are having trouble get your data off as best
you can, erase AND ZERO the drive, repartition, and
only then re-load from your Install DVD.
Takes extra time but better safe than sorry...
Well, I have no real means to do this now as I sold off my G5 already
Also, how do you zero it?
When I reformatted my G5, I picked the option to wipe and reinstall, yet when I did, the drive name and bluetooth names were still my old ones! - Not encouraging.
In any case, its clear I have a software problem, so looks like I'll need to burn a zillion dvds and start over .
Thanks.