Need advice/opinion on disk repair

My computer crashed...twice. Upon the advice...and help...of Apple, I did a complete reinstall of my harddrive. It seems to be working well now, but when I run Disk Utility, I get the following message:
A few lines of that just say 'checking' this and that
The last line says, "The volume MacIntosh HD appears to be okay."
Then in bold, it says, Repair attempted on 1 volume.
Then in red, it says 'HFS Volume repaired."
Apple tells me that it should NOT continue to say the repair has been attempted and repaired. That really means there is still something wrong. The only message that means everything is okay is "The volume MacIntosh HD appears to be okay." I have run disk utility a number of times, I continue to get the same message, even though I theoretically have a new HD.
I then ran Disk Warrior. It corrected a bunch of things with iMovie, and now I'm getting a clear report. Disk Utility however still gives the same message that Apple says indicates something is wrong.
Yesterday we put in new memory and checked the capacitor. There was only one that we could see (someone said there were two), but there was no cracking or leaking.
My question: Is there something wrong? Restored hard drive, computer seems to be running well, Disk Warrior corrected everything and gives a clean report, capacitor seems okay, but Disk Utility continues with the strange message that Apple says may indicate a problem. Is there cause to worry? Should I do anything else?
Thanks for the help! You people are fabulous; I am so grateful for this board.
Oh, yes, my eMac is almost two years old. I have Panther still.

I'd put a lot more trust in Disk Warrior than in the Panther version of Disk Utility, so as long as Disk Warrior is giving you a clean bill of health, you shouldn't need to worry and can just blame it on some garbled Disk Utility setting. As a WAG, it might help to open Applications> Utilities> Console, View all logs, select ~/Library/Logs/DiskUtility.log, and delete that, then see what re-running Disk Utility> Verify Disk shows.

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