Repair Disk Failure

I just upgraded my Beige to 10.4.4. All runs fine, but when I run Repair Disk it fails, I get the following:
"Verify and Repair disk “OSX”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
Rechecking volume.
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy."
It will keep running through this over and over again then after 5 or 6 tries it says that it cannot repair disk. How can I get it to repair?
BTW, I'm running Repair Disk from an external drive as I have in the past w/o incident.
Thanks for any help,
Tony

Hi Tony,
Sorry you're having problems with 10.4.4. Here's a link to more info about some of the problems people are experiencing with this new update --
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060111082842671
And just a word of caution. As our Beiges are so picky about what happens within the OS, you might want to hold off incremental updates until they've been out for a couple of weeks or so, and Apple has had a chance to tweak it and/or issue a further update to fix bugs. This update in particular is a big transition, as it makes the adjustment to the Intel chip. There seems to be some feeling that 10.4.5 is not far away.
Good luck. Diskwarrior may help. Just be sure to run the Tiger version (3.0.3) and not the earlier version which works with Panther.
Keep us posted!
Tina

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