Verify Permissions FAIL - What?

Apologies, I have a few other posts up, which are probably related to this.
Noy sure if this is the best place to post.
I installed larger HDs in my 2001 Quicksilver. I used 160Gb drives of which 128Gb gets used.
Used "SuperDuper" to copy drives, and verified & repaired Permissions. All went well.
Now with the new drives installed I've encountered problems with Mail, (Do Not Localize), and iTunes, (The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have permission for this file), which I think are related to problems with Permissions.
When I attempt to verify or repair permissions on my "new" Macintosh HD drive, I get the error message: +"Reading The permissions database can take several minutes. ERROR: The underlying task reported failure on exit. Permissions verification complete"+ Same happens if I try to repair permissions.
Can anyone suggest what's happening and what I can do about it?
Is my only option to re-install OS10.5 from the install disc, and then upgrade to the latest OS10.5?
Thoughts and comments welcome. And many thanks as always.

One possibility would be to do a +Repair Disk+ (not permissions).
You can't do this using the version of Disk Utility in your Applications/Utilities folder, because you can't repair the disk you're booted from.
So insert your Leopard Install disc, and start up while holding down the "C" key. This will take a few minutes.
Select your language at the prompt, then on the next screen, Utilities from the Menubar, then +Disk Utility+ and try the +Repair Disk+ from there.
If it can't repair everything, try again until it does, or makes no progress.
If it's still not repaired, you might try a heavy-duty 3rd-party disk repair app, like DiskWarrior (about $100). Otherwise, your only choices are to erase the disk and reinstall, or there may be a problem with the disk itself.

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John Seal wrote:
2009-06-22 15:20:43 -0400: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2009-06-22 15:20:44 -0400:
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Rajesh Sharma wrote:
I'm a new Mac user, and I've undoubtedly deleted or moved files to incorrect places.
You probably haven't, unless you've been in the system files on the hard drive.
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Hi,
Just regular maintenance.
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I'm tracing another problem and decided to check "Verify permissions" again, having done it a couple days ago.
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Group differs on ./Private, should be 80, group is 0
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Permissions differ on ./private/etc/xinetd.d, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rwxr-xr-x
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Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Determining correct file permissions.
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Owner and group corrected on ./private/etc/xinetd.d
Permissions corrected on ./private/etc/xinetd.d
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well, ok ... hen is it not an issue that despite permissions being listed as fixed, that they appear, once again, to be the same errors?
I mean, if it's insignificant, then I'll not worry about "why" it does that ... and move on in trying to fix the original problem ... of which you are familiar anyway.
thanks Ray.

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