Latest imac update seems to have messed up disk utility

I just performed (as I always do) the latest apple software update that just popped up on my screen. I did the upgrade (for itunes and quicktime) on both my 1.25 GHz G4 imac (system 10.3.9) and my 10.7 GHz G4 (system 10.3.9).
For both machines I ran disk utility within 15 minutes of the upgrade, having performed no other operations. In both cases, Disk utility failed, giving me the message: "disk utility has lost its connection with disk management tool and cannot continue. Please quit and launch disk utility."
Relaunch was not effective. I ran disk warrior on both computers and it did not help.
Any clues? Seems like the latest updates must have done something crazy to the software.
Thanks!

OK, I tried running disk utility from the system disk as you suggested. It acted just the same way - froze about 1/3 of the way through. Gave the same error message, and the same scary message that if you stop running disk utility (which one must do since it will not run), then there is a risk of damaging the disk.
Thanks for the help. Any other suggestions?

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Latest imac software update seems to have messed up disk utility

I just performed (as I always do) the latest apple software update that just popped up on my screen. I did the upgrade (for itunes and quicktime) on both my 1.25 GHz G4 imac (system 10.3.9) and my 10.7 GHz G4 (system 10.3.9).
For both machines I ran disk utility within 15 minutes of the upgrade, having performed no other operations. In both cases, Disk utility failed, giving me the message: "disk utility has lost its connection with disk management tool and cannot continue. Please quit and launch disk utility."
Relaunch was not effective. I ran disk warrior on both computers and it did not help.
Any clues? Seems like the latest updates must have done something crazy to the software.
Thanks!
ibook, imac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You've posted this question in a forum that is unrelated to your machine and software.
Please repost your question in the iMac G4 forum where more people will be able to give focused attention to your issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=872
Good luck!

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OK, I tried running disk utility from the system disk as you suggested. It acted just the same way - froze about 1/3 of the way through. Gave the same error message, and the same scary message that if you stop running disk utility (which one must do since it will not run), then there is a risk of damaging the disk.
Thanks for the help. Any other suggestions?

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[2011-10-11 19:48] upgraded libass (0.9.13-1 -> 0.10.0-1)
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[2011-10-11 19:48] upgraded shared-mime-info (0.90-1 -> 0.91-1)
[2011-10-11 19:48] upgraded transmission-gtk (2.41-1 -> 2.41-2)
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[2011-10-12 21:48] upgraded farsight2 (0.0.29-1 -> 0.0.31-1)
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[2011-10-12 21:48] upgraded systemd (36-1 -> 37-1)
[2011-10-12 21:48] upgraded systemd-arch-units (20110902-1 -> 20111011-1)
[2011-10-12 21:48] upgraded telepathy-glib (0.15.7-1 -> 0.15.9-1)
[2011-10-12 21:48] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.6.0-3 -> 2.6.0-4)
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