10.6.7 won't shutdown or restart

When i click the shutdown or restart buttons i the apple menu, nothing happens. The window i was on is deactivated, but i never get the shutdown dialog box. This happens for both shutdown and restart. Same issue when i hit the power button and when i try to restart of updates. It really need to fix this because i can no longer get updates.

Try repairing your permissions from within the Disk Utility App. You will find the Disk Utility App inside the Utilities Folder of the Application folder.
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Launch Disk Utility
Select your hard drive on the left hand side bar
Click on Repair Disk Permissions
**It can take a while to repair permissions...so before you have a cup of coffee brewing this morning.
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Next, boot from your recovery partition by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the recovery desktop appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar.
In the Terminal window, enter “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A Reset Password window opens.
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