Leopard and Disk Utility

Since installing Leopard 2 days ago, I find that "Disk Utility" will no longer open. has anyone else come across this problem? Does anyone have any advice on how to correct the problem? I use this frequently in order to carry out repairs to the permissions.
Thanks in advance
Diane

After upgrading to leopard I couldn't open disk utility from utility folder alias in finder, but found I was able to open it in the utility folder in the application stack in the dock. I replaced the utility folder alias in the finder and it opened fine after that... but there seem to be some bugs with disk utility and leopard... i.e. - it's very slow, doesn't show progress bar, and doesn't seem to be actually repairing anything at all. Hope this helps and hope the first leopard update comes soon.

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Overall I am finding Leopard much slower in operation than Tiger. Peter

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My issue is complex, but I'll try my best to explain it as I can.
One has been resolved it seems, but I am including it so that the whole issue can be seen in context.
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Last night, after rebooting my Mac Pro from my Bootcamp partition (I'm using Windows 7 Professional if that information is helpful) I received a kernel panic upon Mac OS X booting (Mac OS X 10.6.8).
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I then booted my Mac into Safe Mode to check my hardware.
Upon opening Disk Utility and verifying my Mac HD — the result "Macintosh HD appears to be OK", rand the test again to see if this was an anomaly, but disk returned another pass.
I performed a normal restart of my system, although Finder was a little slower to load than normal, the system booted correctly. — I then launched Disk Utility and verified the Mac HD, it returned another pass.
This confused me, after a call to Apple Support the tech explained that 'sometime a Safe Mode boot will fix problems because it disables all non-essential processes when booting. — That makes sense to me.
However.
The issue of my Mac not recognizing bootable DVDs remains — it reads disks correctly, it just will not boot them.
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1. a PRAM reset. — No change.
2. an SMC reset. — No change.
3. Removal of newly installed RAM. — I have tried both running the old and new RAM separately, no change using either combination.
4. Running bootable DVDs in different optical bays. — No change from both bays.
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b. My lower drive is LG DVD-RAM combo drive, I have also booted from this drive before. (Over one year old, replacement for an Apple optical drive.)
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500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD (less than a year old, boot drive for Mac OS X 10.6.8)
1TB Samsung HDD (for data storage and also containing Bootcamp partition)
2TB HDD (cannot remember manufacturer, contains Time Machine backups, as well as data storage)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of VRAM
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should I avoid using Onyx to repair permissions and just use DU in future?
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