Mac OS X Lion – How to turn a “regular” user account into a service account

I am afraid you are out of luck and there is no help for this. I tried to help a tech support client with this same problem and there is nothing to be done about it. It is truly too late.

People, if you have ever bought anything from any merchant (not just iTunes) and registered your account with the merchant using an email address from your employer, and that email account is still active, do this:

1. Get a free email account from Google Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or another free email service.

2. Log in to each account with a merchant and change your account's email address from your work email address to your new extra email address from Google, Yahoo, etc.

3. Only ever buy anything on an account that has your free extra email address as the registered email address.

Paul Jackson, I'm sorry you've had to learn a hard and expensive lesson.

Your first triage step is to isolate software from hardware. You could install ML clean on an external drive and see how it works or just erase your Mac and reinstall. Once you've concluded the hardware and base OS is stable, you can try the migration / restore from backup again or start narrowing down software corruption as a cause.

Assuming you can make the kernel panics happen - once you have 4 or 5, the stack trace should point to a pattern of where the system is having problems. If you can't reproduce the panic, then you may just need to clean up from a hard landing by restoring from a time before the unlucky crash.