Disk Utility & permissions issue FIXED!!

After reading many reports of people with the same issues, this worked for me. DO NOT update to iTunes Ver 6.0.2! If you already have, revert back to Ver 6.0.1 and trash your iTunes .plists. After doing so, DU should repair permissions just fine. Another thread mentioned possibly trashing the Chess program and its .plists as well, but as for me, just going back to the previous iTunes 6.0.1 worked! Hope this helps.
Robb

Here's another solution posted this afternoon.
1. 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.
Be very careful here, be sure to leave the last two there!
Then see if you can repair permissions.

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    Message was edited by: den.thed
    Also note that if you uncheck "Show details" you will no longer see the messages.

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    Message was edited by: slimpikkunz

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    Message was edited by: Dan the 480 Man

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    I'm seeing them enabled only for the system drive.
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