Can't repair permissions from the original Panther disk.

My computer has been acting a little quirky lately and decided to repair permissions as I have done many times in the past. When I started up from my original panther start up disk and tried to repair permissions, it worked for awhile and then I got an error "Disk Utility has lost it's connection with the disk management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch disk utility. When I try to quit disk utility, I get the warning that there are still some processes taking place- although the thermometer bar doesn't move- and that quiting could render the disk non-operational. What do I do now?
Dick SKover

Please see the stickie note at the top of this forum that details where to go for this fix. It's been a comman problem. Alternatively try here (a direct link to the above stickie). HTH.
-NifflerX
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