CANNOT REPAIR PERMISSIONS - pls help!

Question

While booted from my restore disk (with Disk Utility Open & attempting to repair permissions), D.U. goes about 33% of the way & stops/displays the following onscreen message: Disk Utility Internal Error
Disk Utility has lost it's connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility.
I used DiscWarrior to rebuild the directories & then ran TechToolPro 4 from my eDrive to check Volume Structures (came up clean).
For the heckuvit, ran D.U. from my Apps Utility Folder. This time it did complete, making some changes. Ran a second time. Results of each are shown below.
Repairing permissions for “Panther:Operating”
Determining correct file permissions.
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays. New permissions are 16893
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles. New permissions are 16893
Permissions differ on ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxrwxrwx
Owner and group corrected on ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles
Permissions corrected on ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are 33261
We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/jobs. New uid is 1
User differs on ./private/var/at/jobs, should be 1, owner is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/at/jobs
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/at/jobs
We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/spool. New uid is 1
User differs on ./private/var/at/spool, should be 1, owner is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/at/spool
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/at/spool
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/install.log, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/install.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/install.log
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/wtmp, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/wtmp
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/wtmp
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
Permissions repair complete
This is from D.U. in Apps folder run while booted from startup drive.
Repairing permissions for “Panther:Operating”
Determining correct file permissions.
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays. New permissions are 16893
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles. New permissions are 16893
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are 33261
We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/jobs. New uid is 1
We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/spool. New uid is 1
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
Permissions repair complete
This is from D.U. in Apps folder run while booted from S.U. drive (run a second time).
Then tried once more, booted from the restore disc & STILL it stops a 3rd of the way & displays the same onscreen message.
Why is this happening & how can I resolve it?
Don

Answer 1

This has to do with a problem with the latest update and Panther and iTunes.
Tip offered by Kappy and others in the 10.3& earlier Forum;
1) Move iTunes onto the Desktop.
2) Run Disk Utility
3) Go to HD>Library>Receipts and trash all iTunes .pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
4) empty Trash.
5) move iTune from Desktop back to 'Applications'.
Hey presto. you should now be able to repair permissions again.
Offered by Bee;
Kappy, et all . . .
This was posted earlier today . . .
I'll have to get the author's name, sorry don't have it now.
It seems that it may not necessary to pull iTunes out of the App folder:
Did you recently update your iTunes?
If so, that seems to have caused a bit of a problem with Panther.
If that is the case,
Go to HD>Library>Receipts and trash all ITunes .pkg files
EXCEPT iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg. Then see if you can repair permissions.
Be very careful here, be sure to leave the last two there!
Cheers!
DALE