Why doesn't repair disk permissions repair all disk permissions?

Disk Utility says there are a bunch of disk permissions that need repairing. I hit repair and disk utility says that it repaired those disk permissions. But when I verify, it says they still need to be repaired.

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When repairing permissions disk utility finds and repairs permissions that are not correct.However,when the repair permissions utility is ran again it finds the same errors and says it fixes them again and again and again.What gives? Thanks.

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So I was having problems with my iMac and I thought that repairing the permissions would work. When I went to Disk Utitlity and clicked on REpair Permissions, there was a lot - over 200 - that needed repaired. Disk utility repaired all of them except one, this one
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions repair complete
No matter how many times I try to repair the permissions, Disk Utility wont repair that one.
Can someone tell me what might be wrong with it and how to repair it
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jay

I sort of figured that because it wasnt repairing it.
I don't know what has caused it to change though and how to I put it back to whatever it should be. Also if its not permissions that are causing my windows to stick and my Mac to generally be slow, then what else could it be?

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