Repair user folder Permissions using terminal

Disk utility won't repair ownership & permmisions in the root user folder. I did a transfer of apps from my old Tibook and something went wrong. Some of my folders list "Owner" as unkown etc. I had this issue a few years back when restoring from a cloned drive, and someone on this forum suggested a Terminal command to reset my user folder back to defaults with the proper ownership and that worked! Unfortunately I can't remember the command line ("sudo chown...something like that). Changing permissions on each folder and file using the "get info" command is too tedious. Thanks for any help.
MBP 17in 2.33ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)
TiBook 667 Mac OS X (10.3.7)
TiBook 667 Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Since the cursor advanced to the next line after entering each command, and no error message was returned, it sounds like the commands worked.
The Get Info panel is sometimes slow to reflect permissions changes. Try control-option-clicking Finder's Dock icon and select Relaunch. See if that kick-starts the Get Info permissions report.
You can verify that everything changed correctly by typing this into a Terminal window:
ls -laR ~ > ~/Desktop/list.txt
That will create a file on your desktop called list.txt. Open it with TextEdit. It will list every file and folder in your home directory. If your username is listed as the owner of everything then it worked correctly.

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From your account, have you first tried changing the Owner to yu, then the Group to admin, then the owner back to her?
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Insert the disc.
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