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My bad--I should have clarified: NAV is ok, but I would NEVER use Norton Utilities on the Mac!! I did so for years (in the OS 9 days) before realizing that it kept screwing thing up worse than they were before! (Or at the very least, wasted a lot of time accomplishing nothing--somehow "10,000 bundle bits" were always "turned off" even if I ran it twice in a row...)

For actual drive maintenance/repair, DiskWarrior absolutely kicks ass! Highly recommended!!

For occasional maintenance, repair your disk permissions via OS X's built-in Disk Utility once in awhile--generally just before and just after an OS upgrade (like this weeks' 10.3.8), or after upgrading/installing a bunch of smaller items. It's quick and painless (you don't need to reboot afterwards, and you can let it work in the background while you do other stuff).