Weird message while repairing permissions

Hi,
I was repairing the permissions on my MacBook Pro and during the repair I got the following message:
ACL found but not expected on "private/var/root/Library/Preferences".
2007-10-29 17:36:07 -0400: ACL found but not expected on "private/var/root/Library".
2007-10-29 17:36:07 -0400: ACL found but not expected on "private/var/root".
Does anyone have any idea what this means? I have no idea. Thanks
Message was edited by: Michael Gehman

There are numerous but innocuous messages reported by Disk Utility when repairing permissions. See the following: Mac OS X 10.5- Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore.
These messages will occur each time you repair permissions, and they may be safely ignored.

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