Can't verify disk permissions (or get wireless to work) with SR macbook

Anybody else on an SR macbook wanna try verifying their disk permissions and tell me if it works? Also I have the ubiquitous airport problem (it just plain doesn't work). I used to have a mid 2006 revision and it worked flawlessly (until someone stole it!)

Your response was not a helpful response. I like you also want to use the "supremely superior MAC", but unlike you, I would prefer to have one laptop I use for everything and would prefer to use the best. I would sure rather convert my entire business to MAC (which would mean 100s of machines), but unfortunately all the software that it takes to run my business only runs on Windows. All of my software runs much better on the MAC even with Windows O/S. That would be a huge selling point for MAC if they even made a modest attempt to support users that only want to use a MAC and would llike to completely move away from the PC. I would love to throw all of my PCs in the trash. I have an iPad and use my iPhone for everything I do in the business side of my life along with my MacBook, with only one issue that the Windows side won't let me connect to my wireless networks and I can't find Apple support or others like you that can offer any solutions.

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The chances are excellent that you will get that one advisory, and at the end it will say "Repair Permissions Completed."
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Although it keeps actively finding problems with the disk, the progress bar hasn't changed for more than a half an hour, and it still says it's going to take an hour and 35 minutes. I'm starting to worry it will never be done! My laptop, a Macbook Pro, is pretty old - about five years, and I don't know if the fact that I've never run a verify disk permissions before has anything to do with it.
The only non-greyed out option is to currently 'stop permission verify'.

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On which Disk? Does the highlighted one have OSX on it?

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Verify disk permissions

Hi,
Can anyone tell me why I keep getting this when I run "Verify Disk Permissions"?:
Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
Permissions differ on "private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x .
This is why i think my computer is slowing down as well. it was working fine before i installed the brother multi-function printer.
disk utility repairs the permissions but when i restart the comp and run disk repair it comes up again. this is following up from an earlier post from beth.

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