How do you fix a volume when it needs repair?

I ran Disk Utility and the below is what came up.  I'm able to use my iBook G3 without any problems...but I'm concerned by what the disk utility reported.  I don't get the option to repair disk...it's grayed out.  Any suggestions on how to fix the problem without losing everything on the laptop and starting over?
Report:
Keys out of order
Volume  HD needs to be repaired
Error:  The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
  Volume needs repair
That's it and it won't let me repair it?  Any help is welcomed! 

You can't repair the startup volume while booted from it.
As Niel says, you need to use an alternate method for repairing the disk.
You can repair the hard drive either by booting into Safe Mode OR by starting up from the Mac OS X Install disc by inserting the disc and restarting your computer, holding down the c key as the startup chime is ending. Then click 'Next' at the language screen and choose Utilities > Disk Utility and select the hard drive in the left column. Choose the First Aid tab. Click Repair Disk to test and repair the hard drive. Then close the installer, and restart normally.
Once you have repaired the hard drive with either Safe Mode or the Install disc's Disk Utility, then start up normally and repair permissions from Disk Utility in the Utilities folder on the hard drive.

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