Must repair disk, can't find installation disks!

Hi,
My macpro 10.6.4 has been running slow (but correctly) so I downloaded onyx to do some maintenance work on it. unfortunately it found that there are problems on the startup disk and advised me to insert the installation disks, and press C while restarting. Then go to disk utility and repair disk. Unfortunately I cannot find the 10.6 disks, I can only lay me hands on the 10.4.7 disks. Will this work? Or should I just keep working with a faulty disk (I have time machine backups) and request replacement disks form apple (I have my receipt)...
Many thanks for any advice

Ah, the rule I would adhere to: never modify / download or install something on a drive that is in needs of repair.
Mac Pro: there is NO reason in that setup to not have a small emergency system volume, a good bootable clone backup.
Rule #2: never use older versions, even within the same OS family.
#3: pick up Disk Warrior; backup hard drive.
#4: Apple $29 Snow Leopard DVD 10.6
What you can use though is fsck, which is one part of Applejack (it has others like cache cleaning which is very useful), check for corrupt prefs and 3-4 other features. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is almost identical, they rely on Apple's command line diskutil / fsck from Single User Mode.
There is also Shift key and SAFE BOOT.
Depends on the severity of the error.
My macpro 10.6.4 has been running slow (but correctly) so I downloaded onyx to do some maintenance work on it. unfortunately it found that there are problems on the startup disk and advised me to insert the installation disks, and press C while restarting. Then go to disk utility and repair disk. Unfortunately I cannot find the 10.6 disks, I can only lay me hands on the 10.4.7 disks. Will this work? Or should I just keep working with a faulty disk (I have time machine backups) and request replacement disks form apple (I have my receipt)...
I would not download an app/utility in such a situation.
Running slow is not normal or healthy.
And I keep seeing problems lately from (a few) using Onyx, obviously with underlying problems to begin with.
Do a favor, invest in Disk Warrior and setup OS X on another drive.
Disk Utility RESTORE can copy your system to another hard drive and allow you to boot from there. Use that.
Make sure "Ignore Ownership" is not selected first (with internal drives, it wont but with USB/FW it usually is).
In future, SuperDuper or CCC can keep your backup clone current and up to date.
For now, DU Restore will give you another drive to boot from and use; and to repair your current system drive. But I would not put off getting Disk WArrior and a better maintenance and recovery procedure. Rather than waiting for slowdown or issues and focus on prevention.
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/topic4557.html#d10aug2010

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