Little Glitch while repairing permissions.

I have been experiencing a little glitch when repairing permissions, and it has been a while now.
The problem appears with all utilities, from Disk Utility to Applejack and so on.
The type of error is the following:
: for architecture i386 object: ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD command 27 can't byte swap it)
: for architecture i386 object: ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iT unesHelper malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD command 13 can't byte swap it)
After this, the repair keeps going and glides till the end.
Maybe it is not very important, but it is definitely annoying to know that something in your system is not 100% right....
thanks

Andrew:
The Blue and White G3 will support the latest release OS X. I suspect you mistook it for a Beige G3, like I did at first, which does not natively support OS X, and will need XPostFacto.
Good luck.
cornelius
PismoG4 550, 100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS X (10.4.5) Mac OS X (10.4.5) Beige G3 OS 8.6

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