10.3.9: G3 iMac won't run 'Repair Permissions' from Panther Disk!

I upgraded the memory to 1024 mb RAM and reinstalled Panther yesterday after leaving it on the shelf for a couple of years due to numerous problems running it on Kihei and Pismo (both with 256 mb RAM). The loading process went well; I ran the following utilities after loading all of the updates:
TechTool 4.0.1
Disk First Aid from Panther disk
Repair Permissions from Panther Disk
Reset NVRAM, PRAM and OF
TechTool showed no problems and Disk First Aid said a repair was made. The first time I attempted to repair 'permissions' the process seemed to be about half way complete when it stopped and displayed the following error:
'Disk Management Tool' has lost contact with Disk Utility, close function and restart Disk Utility' or something to this effect.
Every attempt afterwards results in the same error message coming up almost immediately. iMac seems to be running properly at the moment; is it about to crash again like it did so many times in the past before I reverted to Jaguar? Any insight or advice will be welcome. I will post a copy of this on the 10.3 Panther board too.

Road Hazard: Try the instructions in this article. It is not possible to use the Panther installation disks to repair the permissions on a system which is experiencing this issue.
scapesuiter: A Kihei is one of the models which make up the first slot-loading iMac machines. These came out in October 1999 and were discontinued in July 2000.
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Is it possible to use a keyboard shortcut during boot, type in some code, and run disk utiliy or repair permissions?
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Can I use anyones leopard install cd or does it need to be mine?
plz help
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VK and Kenichi are right. Permissions have changed so don't run repair permissions from a non-Leopard disk.
However, repairing permissions has really become a "magical elixir" that is supposed to solve all kinds of problems. It won't.
Apple's official recommendation is not to run repair permissions from the install disk because a software update could have changed permissions. In any event, if your machine won't boot, repairing permissions won't help. Repairing the disk might.
The HFS+ file system hasn't changed in Leopard. If your machine won't boot, and all you have is a Tiger disk, running disk repair should be safe. After all, it is perfectly safe to have both Leopard and Tiger on the same machine and Tiger can and will run disk repair on its own when it boots up.
Hopefully I've salvaged something from my technical reputation.

Problems with running Repair Permissions

ok,
everytime my powerbook stays on for a while (maybe 1 to 2 days without reboot), my mac slows down. When I look at my iStat Pro, I see almost all my memory in the "inactive" status and under CPU, a high percentage is under "user".
I run repair permissions in the disk utility and this frees almost all the memory from the "inactive" status to "free" and my mac goes a whole lot faster.
my problem is that i get the exact same permissions repair all the time. It says:
"Determining correct file permissions.
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log"
is there some way to fix this problem so that i don't have to run a permissions repair all the time??
thanks for any help.

It's just a log file. Don't worry about it.
Using Repair Disk to "free" memory is a waste of time. Your computer's total available RAM is always the sum of "Inactive" RAM and "Free" RAM. It may be useful for you to read Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor.
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This is what I get when I run repair permissions in disk utility. Thanks for any assistance you can give.
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
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Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
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Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/pt_PT.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/pt.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/pt.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/pt.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
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Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/sv.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
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Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
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Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
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Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/fi.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/fi.lproj/MainMenu.nib”; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r-- .
Repaired “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/fi.lproj/MainMenu.nib”
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Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL found but not expected on “private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd”
ACL found but not expected on “private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd”
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Permissions repair complete

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