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None of my daemon scripts work now, and the startup process displayed errors. Should I reinstall the OS and start from scratch, or is there a way to recover these files? Is there a way to rebuild the files I deleted?

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The functions.d directory should be empty by default (unless you have added some custom functions there), for the functions file try replacing it with this working copy.

I suspect they are the same with each installation.

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Thank you so much!! I copied the functions file and rebooted, and everything is working perfectly. – Vortico Mar 19 '11 at 23:36
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/etc/rc.d/functions is a file, owned by the initscripts package.

Boot from an Arch CD, mount your root partition, and use pacman -Syr /mnt initscripts to reinstall.

/etc/rc.d/functions.d/ is a folder, empty by default. It's for user-defined functions.

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I must have gotten the file/folder confused earlier, but this makes more sense. However, I used user69175's method since he posted first. Would you recommend reinstalling the initscripts package even though everything (seems to be) working properly? – Vortico Mar 19 '11 at 23:41
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I just realized that since SSH and networking is running, I could simply use pacman -S initscripts. I did so, and everything is back to normal! – Vortico Mar 19 '11 at 23:46
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