Disk repair and permission repair and all that jazz ...

Sorry for the double post .... anyway,
This morning I followed all suggestions posted on this board,
and I did my first Disk Repair, twice, (from the DVD) and Permissions Repair from the boot drive. I shut down the system, then started it again five minutes later.
Then I downloaded Cocktail and MacJanitor, and ran permissions repair again. Then and ran both Cocktal and McJanitor applications.
I shut down my system for about five minutes,
started it up again, and nothing is broken still.
Things seem pretty much okay.
I thinkthe system boots up a little bit
quicker than before. But not much ...
The only wierd thing is that my Safari icon was missing form the Dock,
and also my Adobe PE icon on the dock is now a big question mark.
I'm not going to mess with it anymore for about a week. I don't want screw things up.
Thanks to everybody on this board who helped me figure all this out.
Now to my last question, for now anyway:
Do you all think it's a good idea to do the same things to my
G-Raid external firewire drive?
Thanks again.

I did that. thanks.
Do you recommend I do a disk repair on my
external G-Raid firewire drive? It is a
Mac OS Extended format ..
There are no applications in it,
only large video files.
thanks

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