Weird messages when I repair permissions...

I've repaired permissions using a number of utilities including Onyx, Cocktail and DiskWarrior (runtime). All of them take about two hours to repair permissions and then I get a string of messages saying "ACS found, but was not expecting System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Public"
Or, "ACS found, but was not expecting System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Pictures"
Or, "ACS found, but was not expecting System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Music"
Or, "ACS found, but was not expecting System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Movies"
Or, "ACS found, but was not expecting System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Voices"
Or, "ACS found, but was not expecting System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Sounds"
Does anyone have any clue what these mean? They don't seem to be permission files per se, and the program does finish repairing permissions, but I fear that they are affecting the stability of my machine.
Any help is appreciated

Michael,
Same delay each time....
Permissions repair on my system takes about 30 minutes.
Do you have a problem with your system?
I have used:
Cocktail
Onyx
And Booted into the original Leopard disk and used Disk Utility
If not, your post leads me to believe that you are over-maintaining, and over concerned.
;~)

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