Repair permissions not really working...

Hi guys so I'm performing some periodic maintenance on my mac and discovered that even when I run disk utility to repair permissions and it reports to have done so, when I run it again right after it repairs the exact same permissions it said I had just repaired...
Whats going on here? Do I need to repair permissions while not booted into the drive?TIA

i understand that it is not causing me trouble now, but I would like to fix what I can fix (if I should) to prevent bigger problems in the future... thats all.
the link you shared with me does not directly apply to my situation. Im not getting the exact same reports that that article is talking about. unless you're telling me to just assume my situation falls in the same class as the situations in that article.

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Tony, if you think it isn't working because all you see is the blue & white "barber pole" display instead of the all blue progress bar during the repair, rest assured that this is just a display bug & the repair actually is being done. It can take a long time for the repair -- much longer than in Tiger, so be patient -- give it as much as 10 minutes or more to complete & you should see the 'permissions repair complete' message eventually.
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Michael Lunsford wrote:
I've been digging on this for a while and don't see a relevant answer, so here goes. My ichat stopped working earlier today. Clicking the icon in the menubar says "no account enabled." Now, normally when this happens, I just reboot to the recovery partition, run "repair disk permissions" in disk utility, boot up again and things are grand.
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David Das wrote:
I just installed a new 8-core Mac Pro, fresh install of Leopard, plus iLife 09 and a ton of my software.
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