PERMISSION MESSED UP HELP ! LOCKED OUT OF DISKS

I messed up permssions by accidentally changing the get info window on my internal hard disk - the HD - instructing it to apply the altered & mistaken permissions to everything inside the HD volume. The system crashed and I couldn't boot up.
So, I re-installed snow leopard from the CD and did a restore from the time machine backup which was residing on an external disk.
But when completed I still had messed up permissions everywhere & was locked out of all my external hard disks - including the one with the backup on.
Although the computer was working, things were wrong and the time machine could not access the external disk to do any more backups either.
In its present state, the computer is unusable as I cannot move anything to other folders without it copying and I have to provide my password a thousand times an hour for doing things plus I'm locked out of external discs.
Does anyone know what to do abokut this ?
I read some old threads from 2009 here which mention lots of people having this problem, but nothing I do has worked and I guesss those threads are far too out of date to of use.

I've tried everything I can think of and am still locked out of a partition on my computer hard disk where I had stored a previous, older OS & I am also, separately, locked out of a partition on an external hard disk which I think also has an old OS, possibly Tiger, on.
But worse than that is that in the past few days my whole main user account on the computer which I had restored by booting up from the Snow Leopard OS disk holding down the 'C' key is becoming increasingly corrupted. It is painfully slow & unusable because of that, & the time machine backups seem to have gone nuts., One produced a 500 plus GB backup from a computer hard disk which is only 250 GB big. Others time machine backups remain incomplete, others backup really,really slowly and never seem to complete. It's chaos.
Then today safari just refused to load in that main user account although it continued to load and allow it to be used in another account.
The only solution seems to me to be to completely erase everything, everywhere and re-install the Snow Leopard OS again after emptying the computer hard disc completely.
And then leaving all my information on the external hard discs and not restore as I did before because that will just re-install the same problems.
I find this ridiculous and now I have learnt a bit more about it and the fact that many people have had this problem when restoring from a time machine backup it seems to me that apple software is just total rubbish and not fit for purpose.
Can anyone tell me what on earth is the solution to restoring default permissions on ALL files. As I mention above the standard solution of booting up in the OS install disc & going to utilities/reset password and then reset the ACL just refuses to work for my main user account, although it did allow reset for the other accounts which had hardly any files in them.
I really & truly cannot believe the way software is written so consistently badly.

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