How to proceed from Disk repair "invalid directory item count" "this disk needs to be repaired"?

I'm trying to repair the hard drive on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.8. To be honest I'm surprised the machine has lasted so long. It's very sluggish at the moment.
When verifying the hard drive, I get these details:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid directory item count
(It should be 37 instead of 35)
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
"This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk."
How should I proceed from here? Is the only path to use a mac OS X installation disk (which I don't have, so would have to source and borrow)?
Many thanks

Get the disk and insert it in the optical drive, then restart holding down the C key. You will come to an install screen to pick language. Unless you want some other language click inter. Then before you go any further, look to the top of the screen for a drop down utilities menu. Go to disk utilities open an select your Internal hard drive use repair option in the menu and repair drive . You may have to do this more than once. If this will not repair you drive,you will need a third party repair tool such as disk warrior or a new drive.

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Hi,
My late 2006 MacBook (10.6.8) has recently started crashing quite frequently. The screen becomes dark and a multi-language dialogue appears stating that the computer must be restarted with the power button. When this occurs any audio which was playing begins to repeat/skip and the computer goes into complete lockdown. This is now happening perhaps twice a day or more under moderate use.
This morning I ran 'Verify Disk' in Disk Utility and the process was stopped, stating that I had two 'Invalid directory item counts' and 'the volume Macintosh
HD was found to be corrupt'. Here is a screenshot of the Disk Utility window:
I have rebooted, run a software update and rerun the disk verification but to no avail. I also booted using CMD-S, advised by an older post in another forum which suggested using 'fsck -yf' which ran and stated that the disk had been repaired.
I bought the MacBook second hand from an Apple dealer but it didn't come with an install disc so I am unable to reboot and repair the disk like that.
My questions, therefore, are what does this mean for my computer in the future, will either of these issues cause me more trouble?
What can I do about it without the install disc
And are these issues directly related to the crashes? (I have been running the computer connected to an external drive and monitor - for watching movies)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
Twitch

Not much you can do without an install disc which can be purchased from Apple Store > Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)
multi-language dialogue appears
That is referred to as a kernel panic. OS X: About kernel panics
Regardless of the kernel panics, you will still need the install disc to repair and reinstall OS X if necessary.
And are these issues directly related to the crashes? (I have been running the computer connected to an external drive and monitor - for watching movies)
Could be part of the problem.

Disk Utility: Invalid Directory Item Count

I have noticed a minor problem with my Mac Pro when restarting. Sometimes it will fail to restart correctly and simply displays the grey screen (but not the apple icon). Usually powering down the Mac Pro will get it to start up correctly. Not ideal, but manageable.
I ran Disk Utility earlier to check what may be causing this issue and was given the following after Verifying Disk:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
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If I restart and launch Recovery HD will I lose any data or mess things up? The machine works perfectly fine once booted and I was none the wiser to this error until I ran disk utility. The timing is unfortunate as I have just ordered a replacement drive for Time Machine due to an unrelated external hard drive error, so I don't have a recent backup which is a bit unnerving.
I want to run Recovery HD but I'm worried its going to cause a problem on an otherwise fully operational machine. I don't want to create an issue unless there is one (especially when I dont have a secure backup for a few more days). I also have Disk Warrior which has been fantastic in the past, but I cannot use it on the Mackintosh HD as it wont allow rebuilding of the startup disc.
So my question is: Should I run recovery HD now or just wait until I have a secure backup just in case it screws up? Is it possible Recovery HD may "create" a problem for me on my machine which runs and operates perfectly (minus the restart problem).

I went into Recovery HD and ran Disk Utility. It verified and repaired the permissions without any data loss or problems. As a bonus the boot problem seems to have been recitifed.

Invalid directory item count

Hi all
I have a 2008 model iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.4.
After installing the most recent security update this weekend, the machine rebooted and hung on start up (it was stuck on the circular activity indicator / gray screen for well over an hour). In the end I killed the power and restarted. The machine came up straight away.
I verified the disk using Disk Utility and it reported errors. So I rebooted into single user and ran fsck -fy, which fixed a whole bunch of stuff. Booted the machine and ran Disk Utility again, and it still reported errors!
Back into single user and fsck -fy the disk until it reports no changes twice in a row. Start the machine and run Disk Utility and again it reports a problem!
So now I am stuck in a loop:
- Boot in single user
- Run fsck -fy
- fsck reports that 'Invalid directory item count' error and corrects it
- Boot the machine
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- Back to single user and it starts again
Can anyone advise on this? Do I need to worry about that message? It's the same error every time - and every time I fix it in single user and it's back by the time the machine boots. Do I just need to go out and buy DiskWarrior? I'd rather not - on the surface there's nothing wrong with the machine and I never would've known if I hadn't run Disk Utility after that hang.
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Thank you for the reply.
SMART validates as 'OK'.
I will try the hardware test. The OEM hard disk that came with this machine failed last year and the hardware test identified that before it finally died. However that had a lot of problems leading up to it - the machine would hang and was often very slow - checking Console showed a lot of I/O errors. Fortunately nothing like that is happening this time.
Hopefully this disk is OK. Thanks again.

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I created my repair disk on DVD about 6 months ago, without the image, just the repair disk. This is a 2-year old HP desktop Pavillion.
Now I have a brand new drive WD 500GB (original was Seagate 500GB, both SATA) and the repair disk does not work with it. I formatted the new drive using the same desktop from the command prompt using the command Format C:, one NTFS volume 500GB. The repair disk loads fine but none of the options get me to recovery. When I go to the Recovery Manager, all the options are not enabled, and no way to select the recovery options.
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