Hard Drive Volume Needs Repair...........Please Help

My Power/PC G4 with dual 1.25g processors with OS 10.4.11, is running very slow. I get the spinning beach ball whenever it tries to load anything from disk. I used disk utility to verify the hard drive. I got the following message;
Volume Header needs minor repair
The Volume needs to be repaired
1HFS Volume Checked
Volume needs repair.
I followed the instructions in Disk Utility to start my computer from my OS 10 install disk. The Disk Utility instructions gave the following instructions;
1. Insert OS 10 Disk
2. Hold down option key and start computer
3. Select Install and click arrow
4. Open Disk Utility
5. click install
6. open disk utility and click to repair
I followed the above but once I did step 3, I was on my way to do a new install.
Followed everything asked for on the screen, the next click was to start install.
Never once anywhere did I have the option for #4 above (open disk utility). I dont know what I am doing, just following directions. I aborted the operation as I did not want to clobber my installed 10.4.11.
Please tell me what I did wrong or how to get Disk Utility running from my OS10
install disk so I can run disk utility repair.
Thanks
Paul

Click here and follow the instructions. If there's no Disk Utility option in the Installer menu, use fsck.
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