ROS Environmental variable problem

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I"m running ROS Indigo virtually using Ubuntu 14.04 on my Mac Book laptop using Parallels. All was ok initially, I was able to execute ROS packages and do some openCV software development with the iSight camera. I'm not sure what happened but now when I open up a new terminal, sourcing the /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash file, none of the ROS environmental variables are getting set. I reinstalled ROS and created a new catkin workspace but my ROS env. variables are still not set to anything. Here's a dump of the error when I tried to initialize my new workspace:

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws/src$ catkin_init_workspace
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/indigo/bin/catkin_init_workspace", line 11, in <module>
    from catkin.init_workspace import init_workspace

Here's my path indicating that ROS indigo is in it:

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$ echo $PATH
/opt/ros/indigo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

Examining my ROS Env. variables yields a blank screen indicating none are set:

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$ env | grep ROS

Can someone please help with this problem? I have been struggling with this for hours now to no avail. Thanks, Phil

UPDATE1: I'm continuing my response here since there isn't enough space in a 'Comment' field.
My apologies, since I've tried several other things since I posted this question, I can't duplicate that catkin_init_workspace error discussed above. However, I am posting my current command line outputs below to indicate my current state:

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$  source devel/setup.bash
/home/parallels/Documents/catkin_wsparallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$ echo $PATH /opt/ros/indigo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$  env | grep ROS
[no environmental variables were printed out here]

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$ catkin_init_workspace
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/indigo/bin/catkin_init_workspace", line 11, in <module>
    from catkin.init_workspace import init_workspace
ImportError: No module named catkin.init_workspace

parallels@ubuntu:~/Documents/catkin_ws$ catkin_make
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/indigo/bin/catkin_make", line 12, in <module>
    from catkin.init_workspace import init_workspace
ImportError: No module named catkin.init_workspace

At this point, I believe I should uninstall ROS and then reinstall ROS. Would you agree? Can you please tell me the safest way to uninstall all ROS components so I can start clean again? Thanks for your help!

I checked my python path and it's matches yours so I decided to uninstall ROS and all my packages and then reinstall ROS. I also installed the image_transport package [with this command: git clone https://github.com/ros-perception/ima... ] which is the package I believe I was using successfully with my first install. After reinstalling ROS and sourcing /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bashrc I have two problems:

1) My ROS environmental variables are blank. Can you please tell me how/where ...