Problem resetting user permissions- CMD R not working

Hi,
Thanks in advance to those willing to lend some help!
GEAR:
2.53 GZ Core 2 Duo Mini running 10.8.5 All updates done.
I believe I have a current Time Capusle backup at my disposal.
New Macbook Air available to help.
ISSUE:
In the last couple of days I seem to be losing permissions to do things in my user profile which is the admin. Can't dump anything to trash without a password, mail will not open as it doesn't have permission anymore, can't move files around from folder to folder, Excel won't save as it is now read only, Firefox won't open as it thinks there is already an open version...Messages won't sync properly anymore or access address book to bring up peoples names to match the phone numbers... etc..etc.
Research showed the problem is likely user permissions and the cure is resetting. Knowing this has to be done via terminal after a COMMAND R boot into recovery mode I have tried everything to make this happen. No go! Apparently the partition required to boot into recovery never happened during install as the computer insists it is not there. Worse it will not default to internet recovery either. When I hold OPTION and boot I have only the HD visible and no recovery option to choose from.
I have created a 10.8 USB recovery stick (on my mac air) and can boot to that on the mini but there is no terminal option (as far as I can see) to allow me to reset the permissions. I also tried to boot to an old Leopard CD hoping that might work.. nada.
I have done a verify disk and repair disk permissions. All good. The computer works 100% fast and proper if I login under a new user profile so my issue appears not to be hardware related at all.
Given that I can't CMD R into any recovery is there any other way to reset these permissions?
Anyone know what would cause this to happen?
Thanks!!
Dave.

In light of the fact there are other things Etre noted as issues I posted the lot. Sorry it's longer but thought I may lead you in the correct direction.
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