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Well your directory was "empty" because you took away the "execute bit" for the directories through your recursive chmod which you need to be able to list files in a directory.
As to why "root" wouldn't be able to change permissions: I'm guessing you ran the "root" commands through sudo which wouldn't work because your user shell couldn't "see" the directory. Running the commands through a true root shell wouldn't have had the same problems.