The resurrection stone doesn't prevent you from dying, or let you come back from the dead, it just lets you talk to dead people. Harry went into it completely expecting to die, but Dumbledore knew (or suspected) that he would survive, but it was essential that he sacrifice himself.
Why harry survived:
The way a horcrux works is that you split apart your soul (by killing someone, which always damages your soul), and you hide the broken off piece in an object. That way if you ever die, your body will be gone but part of your soul will be safe and you can keep living without a body. Voldemort accidentally made Harry a horcrux on the night he killed Harry's parents.
Ok, so remember how Harry survived as a baby? His mom sacrificed herself for him, and that sacrifice made Voldemort unable to touch him. The curse rebounded instead of killing Harry. That protection remained in his blood, which is why Quirrell turned to dust when he tried to touch harry in the first book/movie. This pissed Voldemort off, so in the fourth one, when he was making his new creepy body, he used Harry's blood. Which, remember, still contains Harry's mom's protection.
That is what the prophecy meant. "Neither can live while the other survives". They are tied to each other because a part of Voldemort's soul is in Harry, and Harry's mother's protection is in Voldemort's blood. As long as Voldemort was alive, Harry could not die, and as long as Harry was alive, Voldemort could not die. But when Harry walked into the forrest and sacrificed himself, he was hit with a killing curse. His soul was safe, because of the blood, but Voldemort killed the part of his soul that was in Harry, making him finally able to be killed.
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