Recovery of Snow Leopard using the original install DVD

Hi everyone,
I encounted the following problem:
Somehow a folder called "private" which had a lot of system files ended up in the trash. I tryed to empty it - it wouldn't let me do that, saying "the folllowing files.... are in use". Tryed to move back the folder - the computer wouldn't accept my password.
After re-booting, the computer doesn't start at all.
Tryed the following:
1. Starting with "command" + R, getting into disk utility. Veryfied and repaired - it says the "disk appears to be ok". Still no luck with starting up the comp.
2. Tryed to reboot from the original installation DVD (I have Snow Leopard). Message appears: "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer".
All I am trying to do is to SAVE the files before I can use the "Time Machine".
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

From the recovery partition, open the Terminal and enter the following on a single line:
mv '/Volumes/drivename/Users/homename/.Trash/private/' '/Volumes/drivename/private/'
replacing the underlined text with the actual names.
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