How can I tell if it worked?

Question

I had been told by Apple enteprise Logic pro support that the problems I had where partly caused by home folder permissions and ACL's. They had me run the repair permissions and ACL's in the home folder option on my ML Mini using its' own recovery mode and it solved many problems.
Now I have the same problems[ settings not remembered by logic] om my 5.1 MBP and wanted to try repairing the permissions and ACL's on its' home folder. I had read an article explaining that if I insert the original Snow Leopard install DVD/CD I would come to a screen that offered the choice of changing that home folders password, but also under that option was an option to repair permissions and ACL's for that home folder.
I tried it and all was going well except there was never an indication that anything was happening,like a progress bar , there was a greyed out 'DONE" button but after an hour it was still greyed out,not knowing how this should work since it isn't documented in the info I could find that came with the SL install disk, I stopped the process and tried the APP logic pro to see if the problems had gone away like they had on the Mini in ML.
Nothing had changed so I assume  the repair of the SL MBP home folder hadn't been done.
Does anyone know if that 'DONE' button must first turn blue before the repair is finished?
Or is there is a step in this procedure I didn't know about that would make it possible to use the 10.6.3 install Disk[Retail] to use the option there to repair home folder permissions and ACL's?
The retail install disk is 10.6.3 but I have of course moved up when given the chance to 10.6.8. I did check for updates after doing this and iTunes had a newer version and there was a security update 2013-4 and a Java update of some kind, I installed them all but the problem of some APPs not remembering their settings remains a big problem for my work.

Answer 1

Thanks ds store, I tried those already,but I am saving it bookmarked for future reference, very well done.
The fix from the Logic pro support guy did work in restoring the Hyper draw functionality on my Mini in 10.8 but I don't have the right CD for the MBP,I had 10.5 on the MBP when I bouht it and found a retail family pack for snow Leopard that as you said is 10.6.3,so that must be why the fix didn't work.
While I was trying it again I did see , after choosing the reset password dialog and clicking in the lower portion to reset the permissions and ACL's of this user, that there was a spinning cicle of dark grey bars[the normal one , not the colored one and it said "Running" that disappeared in just seconds without a blue color to the DONE button and since it didn't fix the Hyper Draw isssue I beleive you are right but I am getting old for all of Apples b***s**t and I think I will install again from the Studio 2 box onto a 1 TB external HD which I then can mount at a friends house[instead of taking a MBP ] when I am there to work on a Logic song, he is still in 10.6.8 so the new external should work unless the different IP causes problems, do you  have thoughts on this idea?
Another problem are part names in the score editor,they don't show up in the score under the Arrange, I assume Apple decided we don't need them there so they probably only are shown when the score is printed, which is very stupid because I will never need to print the score, I own a copy and entered the notes with the mouse since importing MIDI files for scores is so 1965,and Apple stole the XML file type from Ricercare to use for FCPX or something.