Repair Disk Permission Error Message

I routinely run Disk Permission Repair through the DU as part of maintaining my Mac (I can't help it - I was once a Windows user :)). Today when I ran this on my primary drive, I received this error:
Warning: SUID file "usr/bin/quota" has been modified and will not be repaired
I checked previous posts and this ISN'T listed as one of the disk repair messages I could safely ignore.
Any ideas as to how to fix this and how serious an error this is?
Thanks.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448 indicates most but not all warnings (not errors). Ignore it.

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That's a status message which can be safely ignored.
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Hi, I have a 13" early 2008 MacBook 4,1, described as:
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Graphics Intel GMA X3100 144 MB
Serial Number W88280ZR0P6
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)-
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Repairing a second, third or fourth time always takes that long....
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