Disk Utility Not Repair Permissions on OS 10.4- Are there other options?

How can I repair repair HD permissions when disk utility does not work? I have a powerpc g4 that I installed a second internal HD and then system would not boot up. Evidently the second drive was damaged and as a result something affected my boot on my main drive. I removed the 2nd hard drive, reset pram, nvram, and would not boot. Tried the usual reset commands and no boot up. (gets to the gray block screen instructing to restart and stops). Restarted trying to get to safe mode by holding down "shift" key but only gets to blue screen and goes no further with spinning circle looking for something. Used my os x install disk and tried disk utility and s.m.a.r.t indicated was ok and ran repair disk and passed with no problems with the file structure. Then ran disk permissions and disk utility would not run or would not complete. I left the computer on overnight to see if it would repair the permissions. Then I went ahead and reinstalled os x 4 again on the HD drive using the save last boot option and restarted and the computer booted up. The desktop came up looking like the old one but most items would not work properly and very slow or would close automaticly. Looked in system information and found spaces between items. I closed the computer down by restart again to see if it would correct the problem but went back to gray screen instructing a reboot. Reboots brought me back to the same gray screen. Is this drive now not usable, can be zeroed out and resued, or just replaced? Where do I go from here....thanks

I installed a second internal HD and then system would not boot up. Evidently the second drive was damaged
What makes you think this? It's not very often that a new hard drive is defective out of the box. More likely is that it was connected improperly. Don't jump to conclusions without evidence.
Then I went ahead and reinstalled os x 4 again on the HD drive using the save last boot option
What? No such thing. Do you mean Archive & Install?
Is this drive now not usable, can be zeroed out and resued, or just replaced?
If Disk Utility says the drive is good, then we have to assume that's true. It appears that you've somehow corrupted your entire OS X installation, so whether or not you have a backup from before this happened, your best option now is to completely erase that hard drive and reinstall OS X from scratch, along with all the Software Updates to bring it to 10.4.11, as well as your third-party applications.
Then, if that doesn't work, that may be an indication of a drive problem, or even a system hardware problem.
To prevent this kind of thing from happening again, you need to invest in at least one external backup drive to use for a bootable backup of your entire hard disk, and keep it updated every day before you shut down your Mac. You can use SuperDuper ($27.95) or Carbon Copy Cloner (donationware) for those.

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Hello, I have a problem with my iMac.
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After that, I went to Disk Utility and clicked repair permissions when a Pop up like this came up:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2582/picture1mt4.png
What is the problem?
Thank you for any help,
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-are you running Disk Utility from the HD or booted to the instal disk?
-what are the affected files?
If the file(s) was not installed by the mac OS X installer, Repair Permissions will not fix the issue
Tip:
If the files are located in your home folder,
boot to instal disk#1,
choose Reset Password Utility from the menu bar
and "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs".
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As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
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I know I read that on MacFixit, but I am not sure I bookmarked it.
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Why?

It might help a little more if you would explain your situation enough so that people can make a guess what the problem might be. My guess is that the Repair Permissions button is grayed out - you can only repair permissions on a volume that has OSX installed on it. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712 for more information.

How do i run the disk utility to repair permissions:confused;

how do i run the disk utility to repair permissions
i think i hav the same problem as you all iv been
restarting and deleting and renstaling but nothing seems to work
the only thing i havent don is this repair prmission
thing can someone type some instuctions on how or lead me where to
go

are you using mac OS10.2 or later?
if so, this is what I did to solve this most frustrating
problem. Go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilities
In the Disk Utility window, click on your hard drive, make
sure you're in the First Aid tab, then click on Repair Disk
Permissions.
Once the permissions were repaired, I took the advice of
another user here on the forum and reinstalled Flash Player 6, as
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screwed everything up.
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When running Disk Utility to Repair Permissions, why does it do it's job and then when you run it again to check, the same files are still being listed again as repaired?
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*Problem with Disk Utility* - +repair permissions don't work anymore+
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Help needed - disk utility cant repair permissions

after upgrading to Leopard - when few days later I verified my permissions in disk utility and ask for repair received log;
<<
Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
Permissions differ on "Library/Preferences", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxrwxrwx .
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/readconf ig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writecon fig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/authopen" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions differ on "Library", should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxrwxrwt .
Permissions verification complete
<<
I'm not unix knowledgeable.
please advice how to solve it?

done - and now I have following info after running disk utility repair :
+Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”+
+Stopped by user+
+Permissions repair complete+
+Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”+
+Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.+
+User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/jvm.cfg", should be 0, user is 95.+
+User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/classlist" , should be 0, user is 95.+
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Can you advice what should I do next to fix it.
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