HI, CharPatton. Welcome to the Discussions.
1. Were you running Disk Utility from the Tiger Install DVD?
If you run Disk Utility from a Mac OS X disc prior to 10.3.9 against a Tiger volume, you can get false "Invalid leaf record count" errors. See
"Mac OS X 10.3: Disk Utility reports inaccurate "Volume needs to be repaired" message when checking Mac OS X 10.4 volume."
Likewise if you:
• startup from a bootable backup of Mac OS X 10.3.8 or earlier;
• attempt to repair your Mac's hard drive as the target computer in Target Disk Mode from another Mac running Mac OS X 10.3.8 or earlier;
you would see the same issue when attempting to repair a Tiger volume.
Always be sure to use only Tiger-compatible disk utilities with Tiger: see
"Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes."
2. You might want to treat the "freezes and hangs" problem similar to a kernel panic as the basic troubleshooting and hardware testing steps are nearly be the same. See my
"Resolving Kernel Panics" FAQ.
Good luck!
😉 Dr. Smoke
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