Q: After I Repair The Permissions On My Mac Pro, Then I Verify The Permissions And They Have To Be Repaired Again And Again.  Why Does This Happen All The Time.   Please Reply,  James

As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:

Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448

Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard onwards changed the location of a number of system components.

Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:

drwxrwxrwx
 
d = directory

r = read

w = write

x = executeable program

drwxrwxrwx

|  |  |

|  |   all other users not in first two types

|  | 

|  group

| 

owner

This forum medium leaves a lot to be desired in formatting;

from the left end, the first

drwx

show the OWNER permissions

the next

rwx

are the GROUP permissions.

the last rwx are the EVERYONE permissions.

a dash in place of a letter means that permission is not granted.