User Groups Missing - Administrative Privileges are Inaccessable

I really can't figure this one out - somehow all of the system's user groups have somehow been removed from my mac therefore disabling any administrative privileges, other than the root user. Even when logging in as root and selecting my user as an administrator, it doesn't recognize the privileges and I remain a 'Standard' user.
I've even tried removing the setup file (/var/db/.applesetupdone) in hopes that completing the initial setup with a NEW user again would allow an admin and reset the groups. This proved pointless as even the newly created user is merely a 'Standard' user and still cannot be activated as an admin from root.
I've already run just about every self-repair function that I have, and none of them see a problem. If anyone has a method to fix this without reinstalling leopard, please let me know - I can reinstall leopard if need be, but I would really rather just fix the problem.

did it really happen to all groups? then perhaps a reinstall is in order. if it only happened to the admin group you can fix its directory services entry as described here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10043721&#10043721
credit to biovizier for that method.

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