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> $ chown -R administrators.administrators /
> chown: //bin: No such file or directory
>
> Have I broken something, or is this a bash problem?

It looks more like a bad coincidence.  Chown (et al) have
inadvertently created a path that looks like a windows network drive
(think "\\machine\foo\bar").

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