Repairing Disk Permissions - Not Working with Lion

I simply am not able to repair disk permissions when my Mac is booted normally - the disk utility hangs and never stops - when I boot in recovery more I can run the utility just fine - and then boot as normal.  I am wondering what might be causing this or if anyone else is having a similar problem?

With Lion, it is best to do any disk repairs via the recovery partition
And why do you say that?  I have heard no such thing, and this was never the case with previous systems.  It has always been recommended to repair permissions while booted from the system whose permissions need to be repaired.  Do you have documentation that this recommendation has changed?
Joe, repairing permissions works fine for me without needing to boot into recovery mode.  Are you giving it plenty of time to finish?  Sometimes it may seem to be frozen... sticking on "less than a minute" for well more than a minute, for example.  Have you repaired the hard drive (which you do need to boot from the recovery partition to do)?

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