Repairing permissions from disc -not

Just to put it out there I own 4 mac's currently and have been using them for 10 years and I'm pretty stumped right now. I updated to 10.4.5, decided to repair permissions from disc and I boot up (from a 10.4.x disc probably like 10.4.2 or 3) and I get a diagram of a mouse with an arrow pointing at it showing that it needs batteries! I've never seen this before and I don't use an external mouse so what the heck is this? I read that you're not supposed to use install discs to repair permissions after you upgrade beyond that version. Never heard that before but that's fine. I can't even boot up beyond this mouse diagram thing to repair the disc. Is it the PB or what? Beyond that if you aren't supposed to use a boot disc, how do you repair permissions? Using disc utility in "utilities" doesn't do everything. Maybe someone can straighten me out here.
I've upgraded to 10.4.4 on my dual 2.5 ghz and use the same tiger install disc and or update disc (I have both) and have no problem.
thanks in advance
powerbook 1.67 high rez 15"   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   2 gigs ram

thanks for the reply, my understanding is that repairing from disc doesn't get everything, that you need to boot from a dvd or external disc.
any idea why my PB wont boot from either disc? what if I wanted to reinstall, I cant even do that!!
thanks

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