Powerbook G4 Disk Utility issues

First things First:
12 inch powerbook
1 ghz processor
512 ram
10.4.8

Recently i noticed that some of my apps weren't as responsive as they had been in the past, I definitely need to upgrade the ram at some point. Just to make sure there wasn't anything wrong with my internal drive i ran disk utility. I selected verify disk and then the whole system locked up, forcing me to shut down and reboot. I have tried running "verify disk" two more times and each time it ends with the same result.

Does anyone have any idea of what's going on? For the most part my system runs fine (except for the slow down) but a service from disk utility locking up my system has me worried.

Aniej said:

use your 10.4.8 startup disk to run disk utility 2. back up files 3. archive and install.

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Startup disk as in the install dvd? The most recent one I have is the original tiger install disk. Damn, that's going to be a lot of software updates.

I called up one of my friends, a Mac Genius, and apparently the problem was an "Illegal Name". I don't really know what or how the issue came about, but the easiest solution was to back everything up and reinstall the OS.

Thanks for all the suggestions and help.