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This is what I was thinking, my desktop the only thing I do is Defrag every few months (Although by default Defrag is turned on to do it automatically) and I don't remember the last time I shut it off, I just put it to sleep.
Os X doesn't defrag big files (like digital video files), as I recently found out when I was trying to create a bootcamp partition (Mac needs a clean swoop for the new partiton). I had to buy iDefrag and boot off the DVD to defrag it.
Yeah, that's the one reason to defrag a Mac: live partitioning. Disk Utility should be able to automatically defrag when you partition rather than dying with meaningless errors. Not very Apple-like.
Would you please explain this more, like what certain types of software installs?
As for the checking and repairing just click the verify and if something pops up then do the repair otherwise leave it alone.
You don't have to do anything for drag-and-drop installs, but anything that uses an installer or comes through Apple's Software Update has the potential to make changes that will require a permissions repair.
I've never had to repair permissions, even when using installer packages or Apple Software Update. You really don't have to worry about it, unless you start experiencing problems. There's no need to repair something that isn't damaged.
iDefrag, Online mode when I don't have that much defrag to do. If the drive's heavily fragged, I just clone then reclone back.