Uh Oh, HD problems and I have pics to process..HELP

Since my Mac puts itself to sleep at night I was advised to run MacJanitor every morning, but ever since I've been doing this I've had some problems. Not sure if there's a connection, but it seems like my Mac was happier when I just left it alone.
Problems:
Bad internet server response. From time to time I have to shut down my Mac, unplug the int. cables for 10 secs., replug/restart and everything works okay. Well this has now become a daily occurance. Today upon startup, my dock appeared, but my menu bar and desktop did not, and the spinning beach ball hung out much longer than usual. I repaired permissions and things popped up much faster afterwards and the internet works. However, after running DiskWarrior graph it says 31% out of order. It also says directory can't be built on the startup disk, and DW resides on this disk. What exactly should I do here?

Hi Donna,
No, using DW to rebuild the directory won't delete your files but you're wise to do a backup before doing any significant maintenance to the hard drive.
"Rebuild Directory" will reconstruct the driectory and compare it to the current one. Any differences will be noted and displayed allowing you to decide if you want replace it. In almost all cases (when there are errors in the directory) you want to replace it with the new one. You can save the old one if you want when you replace it.
John

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