| I run my G4/1.25 MDD 24x7 and the only time I ever repair permissions is after a major updgrade or update. Even then there are seldom any permissions that need repairing.That is really about the only time you should ever need to repair permissions. Not even Nortons has been implicated in messing up permissions like that even though lots of other disk related errors have been linked to it.
Unless you have some really ill behaved third party software, your problem really does sound like a drive issue. One way of convincing Apple to open Disk Utility (you can do this on the boot drive) then select your drive, not the volume installed on the drive. Then at the bottom right of the Disk Utility window look for the S.M.A.R.T. status. If it is anything other than "verified" the firmware in the drive is telling you, and Apple, the drive is on its way to failure and much sooner rather than later. Apple will not argue with the S.M.A.R.T. value.
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G4/1.25 MDD, 1.5 GB, OS X 10.4.5
G4/133 Quicksilver, 1.2 GB, OS X 10.4.5
iBook G4/1.25, 1 GB, OS X 10.4.5
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