Is disk Utility actually repairing the permissions or not?....

Hello there, I am running OS 10.6.7 on an original Mac Pro (2x3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon) with 12GB of memory. Here is my question...
I use disk utility once a week or so, to repair permissions on my operating system drive.  Typically, it will run a healthy list of preferences that it needed to update and never does it list any in red.     Today when I ran it,  I pressed the "Clear History" button on the upper right, then ran the repair permissions again.   Strangely enough, it went in an found all the same errors that it had claimed to find and repaired, the last time around.  So my question then would be,  did it in fact repair those permissions or not?  I ask because logically, it would seem not…
Sean

You can safely ignore those; see this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
P.S. I am assuming you are talking about Snow Leopard? Your profile shows 10.4.11?

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