Method to repair disk without using Panther CDs?

I'm concerned I may need to repair my drive but as I'm sure most of you know, I would need to start up using the OS X Panther install CDs. I can't; I moved recently and forgot them.
Is there a method, such as if I started up in single user mode, to run a disk utility program?
My computer seems a little less efficient lately; Photoshop won't run as smoothly (although it's not a huge difference, it's noticeable) and videos can be jittery/drop frames. Even if use the renice command and give VLC or the DVD Player a fair amount of CPU priority. It's not all the time, but it can happen when it just shouldn't.
Note: using the fsck command (i can't remember the exact options i used with it, someone suggested it to me in another forum) I checked the drive and it said it appeared to be OKAY.

You can repair the drive by booting into single-user mode and using fsck. The following explains the procedures:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

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My good ol' macbook has been running a bit slow lately so I went to Disk Utility and selected to verify the disk. I was then informed that it was corrupt and I need to repair the disk, but I need my OSX installation to do it since I've been traveling and no longer have access.
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2. How do I actually go about repairing the disk when I get the CD (if I absolutely need one)?
3. Do I need to be sure that I have everything backed up on my external harddrive before I do this? I have time machine going frequently already, but I just want to be sure if the time machine back up is enough or if I have to do a manual copy & paste backup.
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