Can one use the 10.3 Disk Utility on a machine running 10.4?

Greetings, everyone:
About a month ago, right before departing upon an international voyage, I purchased a used iBook G4 for a really good price off of eBay as I was apprehensive about dragging my much more expensive MacBook Pro along with me (and the iBook handled Finale, the music notation software I use, and its internet terminal responsibilities more than adequately). While the iBook arrived as advertised in superb condition with 10.4.11 freshly installed on the system, the installation discs that came with it are 10.3 installation discs, leading me to believe that the seller uses 10.4 on his primary computer and had simply installed it on the iBook as a courtesy.
As nothing has gone awry with the computer so far, my question is more of a precautionary one than anything else: if I were to ever need to check my iBook's HDD for errors, could I boot the machine off the 10.3 installation disc and run Disk Utility from there, or would that version's DU no longer be compatible with the computer as it is now running 10.4? I suppose I should acquire a 10.4 installer at some point, but seeing as it's really only a computer I'd use on extended trips/as a backup in case something happens to my MBP, I would rather not if I absolutely didn't have to.
Thank you in advance,
Benjamin

Hi Benjamin, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Supposedly, if the Discs are 10.3.9 you can use them to repair 10.4.x, but I doubt ant 10.3 Install discs are 10.3.9, less than that is a no-no.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2648
Workarounds...
A Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), attempts Disk Repair.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Get & instal Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
DiskWarrior from Alsoft...
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

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