Error while repairing permissions

Hi,
I am getting an error when trying to repair permissions on my Powerbook harddrive. When trying it with Disk Utility, after a while I am getting the following:
"Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility"
When running "sudo diskutil repairPermissions /" in the Terminal, I am getting the following error (after a while):
"* malloc[411]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x50a680; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
: for architecture i386 object: ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD command 27 can't byte swap it)"
Any idea what is happening and how to fix it? I am planning to upgrade to Tiger soon. Might this be something that would be fixed by the upgrade (I am NOT planning to do a clean install), or should I fix it before upgrading?
Thanks for any help!
Ingo Weiss

Ingo,
There's a workaround offered at the top of this forum page. Another solution offered on the web is to remove the i386 binaries from the Universal (FAT) binary distribution of iTunes. You can use lipo to do this or search the web- someone created a GUI frontend for lipo. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the application. The problem persists for some in Tiger.
I haven't upgraded iTunes to 6.0.2. I'm running 6.0.1 and receive this error when I verify permissions.
: object: ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes malformed object (inconsistant sizeofcmds field in mach header)
Disk Utility doesn't stop but the error is thrown. We all may be waiting for an Apple fix.

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