500GB HDD Upgrade + disk errors

Hi,
I have a MBP 17" 2.16Ghz Intel Core Duo and just installed an upgraded hard drive. This is the second upgrade that I have performed. (Went from 100GB 7200rpm to 200GB 7200rpm, and now to a 500GB 5400rpm Samsung). The first time it worked like a charm. This time, I am getting some hard drive errors that Disk Utility can't fix. Here is the messages I get:
Verifying volume “SysDrive”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 92349424 instead of 92349296)
The volume SysDrive needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
Followed by:
Disk Utility stopped verifying "SysDrive" because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
I installed OSX from scratch on a freshly formatted drive and recovered a Time Machine backup to get my settings back. After I started noticing problems, such as Mail and Safari crashing, and a terrible time installing Vista under Parallels (lots of blue screen of death), I looked at Disk Utility and found the problems.
I swapped out the drive again for the 200GB. If I plug in the 500GB as an external USB and run the Disk Utility verify, it comes back clean. My 200GB comes back clean too, so the second time around I used Carbon Copy to clone the contents of the 200GB drive on to the new 500GB drive, then re-installed the new drive in the MBP.
I am able to boot up, and for the most part it seems to work, but Safari quit on me a while ago and I am getting the error above in Disk Utility. I am not even going to start messing with Parallels until I figure something out.
Sorry for the long post, but I am trying to give as much detail as possible.
Does the error above make any sense to anyone? Is there a utility that will be able to fix it?
Thanks
D

Given that you are just starting out with the new drive, the question will be: do you want to spend time on trying to recover the volume, or are you willing to start afresh?
If you haven't put much new stuff on it (and hence, the backup is still the most recent version of your info), it may be quicker to just reformat the drive completely and reinstall. If after the format you keep getting errors, a warranty replacement would be in order.
On the other hand, like Kenneth states, repairing the current volume will require stronger stuff than Disk Utility.

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