Repairing permissions,not clean

I have had a dual 2 g5 for about a year, mostly used for video editing and such, lateley (the last 2 weeks or so) it has been slowing down during less than average tasks (safari opening) rendering small pictures in photoshop cs. I have safe booted/repaired permisions every month with sucess. now no matter how many times i repair them thier is always the same permission repair. So my question is, is there another something I can do or find out how to get a clean bill of health from the permissions window. Thanks in advance for any help with this matter. P.S. Is DiskWarrior a good option?

I have written a few performance tips here
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish
It could be a combination of things.
1: Not enough RAM - get enough to cover all open apps requirements
2: The internet or other networks - take yourself offline with a blank location in network
3: A large almost filled boot drive - reduce and keep it to ideally less than 50% filled, don't go over 80% filled.
4: OS unoptimized - clone your boot drive to a external and back again
5: Slow hard drive - have a boot drive just for boot/apps/itunes/ and a bare bone "home" and keep space hogging user files (especially movies) in new folders on another drive.
6: Caches overloaded, System Prebinding is off - Get OnyX (search Apple) and run all the Automation with a reboot once a month.
7: Daisychaining hard drives - keep each drive on it's port off the G5, don't use hubs your just bottlenecking your interfaces.
8: Video requires hard drive speed and redundancy - Video eats drives fast, consider a X-RAID in a RAID 5 configuration with a lot of drives for fast speed and redundacy of your data.
9: Photoshop -Tiger over rides CS2's RAM limit, but not the previous versions of Photoshop, you'll do good upgrading and having plenty of RAM.
10: Run X-Bench once in awhile to get a grip of the performance of your machine, especially the boot drive. I would try to your uncached 4k block writes to over 100 MB p/s
With the latest update the Permission Repair "We are using special...." is pretty long. It's just informing you of changes and not neccessarily means they were thrown off.
DiskWarrior only repairs your directory, it's optimizations in tests are pretty limited. It's expensive and it's name is a misnomer. If your directory needs repair, it's the program to get. I bought it once and have gone for a year without it just fine as directories rarely foul up.
I would clone your boot drive to a external and back again, you can read how by visiting my link and downloading the file.
(.Mac may be offline tommorow so check back)

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