Repairing start up disk from within disk utiltity no longer an option

When I first upgraded to 10.4, I could repair the startup volume from within disk utility, now, that button is greyed out and no longer an option!
Any thoughts?
thanks

Methinks you are mistaken. You could not verify or repair the boot volume using Disk Utiltiy prior to 10.4.3. In 10.4.3 and later, you can verify it, but need to enable journaling. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672> for details.

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