Suggestion: Use Disk Warrior/ Disk Utility before, after 10.5.6 update

Question

FWIW: For years I have used a combination of Disk Warrior and then Disk Utility before and after updates, major installs, etc. Normally I boot right into Disk Warrior and let it do it's routine and after that check the disk and repair permissions using Disk Utility. Result: Many years of OS X iterations with no problems yet. Knock on wood.
10.5.6: Same routine, no problems.
Observations:
Disk Warrior reported a higher number of Directory graph items out of order after being run prior to installation than most updates of this size in my opinion.
Disk Utility: The disk checked fine and no permissions were repaired. Except that old Group 26.....
Net: 10.5.6 seems the fastest of the Leopards so far. Safari is by far the best yet. It also seems there are a ton of 3rd party apps being updated so be sure to follow due diligence and turn off the Haxies before you begin.
I am beginning to get excited about Snow Leopard, as Leopard's progress is really starting to show.

Answer 1

I thought I was obsessive compulsive for running Repair Disk, Repair Permissions and Disk Warrior (and sometimes TechTool Pro) before installing any OS updates. It’s good to know someone else does that.
I too have never had a problem with any updates. When I installed the first version of Leopard 10.5, it balked on my G5 1.6 GHz computer because it had non-Apple RAM in it that neither Disk Utilities nor Disk Warrior would catch (or even TechTool because it looked like good RAM, but the initially finicky 10.5 installer did not like it). The only way I figured it out was to run System Profiler from the install disk, so I added that to my list of “before installing” tasks.
It seems many people having problems with updates don’t know to at least run Disk Utilities before an update.
It’s good you are trying to get the word out.