odd message when Repairing Permissions in Disk Utility

[Gregg Dinse]

Hi,

I have a Mac Pro that is running Tiger (10.4.11).  It has a pair of  
320-GB hard drives set up as a RAID volume, though I doubt that  
matters.  If I run Repair Permissions on that RAID volume, I get the  
following odd message:

************************************************************************ 
*******
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Determining correct file permissions.
Group differs on ./Private, should be 80, group is 0
Permissions differ on ./Private, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are  
drwxr-xr-x
Owner and group corrected on ./Private
Permissions corrected on ./Private
Group differs on ./private, should be 0, group is 80
Permissions differ on ./private, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are  
drwxrwxr-x
Owner and group corrected on ./private
Permissions corrected on ./private

Permissions repair complete

The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
************************************************************************ 
*******

When it finishes, the above message makes it sound as if a few minor  
things have been repaired, but if I run Repair Permissions again, I  
get the same message.  I don't know much Unix, but it looks like  
there are two things going on here.  First of all, if things are case- 
insensitive, then both /private and /Private should be pointing to  
the same locations, right?  Or are certain parts of the OS case  
sensitive?  Secondly, the disk utility thinks that permissions should  
be one way when the directory is spelled with an upper case "P" and  
then it changes it right back again when it checks the lower case  
version.

Is any of this a problem?  Do others see this?  Are /private and / 
Private the same thing?  If so, what should the permissions be on  
this directory?  If not, then why doesn't disk utility fix it?

Thanks,

Gregg