Disk Utility won't verify or repair permission

As the title says I am having a problem with Disk Utility. The hard drive is brand new (just replaced by Apple Store) and I wanted to repair permissions after the dock wouldn't unhide (this had fixed it in the past). It starts, and says about 1 minute remaining. Nothing happens, the only text displayed is telling me that it has begun. The status bar doesn't move and then it hangs and i get the spinning wheel.
The same thing happens for verify and repair for permissions and disk.
Any advice would be great.

A quick search in these forums for permissions or *permissions problem* reveals many posts the past four months.
In a nutshell, repairing permissions w/Leopard takes anywhere from 10-40 minutes, depending on what's installed and what's contained in /Library/Receipts/bom/. The repair permissions operation has changed in Leopard. The stalled progress bar is an unresolved bug (they haven't figured out how to make it work whilst it's checking or rebuilding the a.receiptdb, in /Library/Receipts/db/. To see what's really going on, open that folder in a Finder window, select list view, launch Disk Utility, select your boot volume, and click on repair permissions. Watch the Finder window flash files that are being read and checked against the current a.receiptdb file. That's what's taking all the time and freezing the progress bar. Once that's finished, the progress bar starts moving and the permissions are being checked and repaired. Also note, that you won't get any *they were repaired* message back for any that are noted to be incorrect.

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