Disk Utility Failure?

Hi all!
Before I start, let me first say that I did search for my problem here before posting, however the results I found were not exactly under the same circumstances as my own.
The long and short of it is this: I was running "Disk Utility" from my installation CD (I started up from the CD). While running "Disk Verify" and "Disk Repair," I received the following message just as the progress bar was complete:
"Disk could not be repaired because Disk Utility failed on exit."
According to the utility, it claimed my hard drive only needed "minor" repairs, and obviously my computer is still very usable (lol), but this still freaked me out a little bit.
Is there something I can (or should) be doing to rectify this? My computer isn't horridly slow or buggy, so perhaps I should go on about my business--unless there is a fairly straightforward way of getting everything back to normal.
Thanks ahead of time for your help!

Hi Miriam!
Well, I used Disk Utility to VERIFY my disk, and here's what I got:
Verifying volume “Dexter”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51706 /usr/share/man/man1/history.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51707 /usr/share/man/man1/hup.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51708 /usr/share/man/man1/if.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51709 /usr/share/man/man1/jobid.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51714 /usr/share/man/man1/limit.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51716 /usr/share/man/man1/log.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51718 /usr/share/man/man1/logout.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51719 /usr/share/man/man1/ls-F.1)
51719 /usr/share/man/man1/ls-F.1
ion (file %@)",1)
51721 /usr/share/man/man1/notify.1
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51722 /usr/share/man/man1/onintr.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51723 /usr/share/man/man1/popd.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51726 /usr/share/man/man1/pushd.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51728 /usr/share/man/man1/readonly.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51729 /usr/share/man/man1/rehash.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file Overlapped extent allocation (file 1730 /usr/share/man/man1/repeat.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51731 /usr/share/man/man1/sched.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51733 /usr/share/man/man1/set.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51734 /usr/share/man/man1/setenv.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51735 /usr/share/man/man1/settc.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51736 /usr/share/man/man1/setty.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file Overlapped extent allocation (file /setvar.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51738 /usr/share/man/man1/shift.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51740 /usr/share/man/man1/source.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51741 /usr/share/man/man1/stop.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51743 /usr/share/man/man1/suspend.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51744 /usr/share/man/man1/switch.1)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51746 /usr/share/man/man1/telltc.1)
51746 /usr/share/man/man1/telltc.1
pped extent allocation (file %@)",1)
51747 /usr/share/man/man1/then.1
Overlapped extent allocation (file 51749 /usr/share/man/man1/trap.1)
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
.",1)
Dexter
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Volume needs repair
Hmmm so I'm getting the same error when I verify from my disk! So--you're saying my next step is TechToolPro or Disk Warrior? I just wish they weren't so pricey... I guess something like cocktail, etc isn't going to help something like this... lol
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