hello, the 'repair file permissions' function of apple's disk utility appears to be no respecter of boundaries: it cheerfully set all the files in /usr/local/apache/bin and /usr/local/apache_proxy/bin to 644, for example, despite the fact that they're owned by root. it seems to have left everything in /sw/ alone, though.
took me a while to work out what had happened, so i thought i'd mention it here. anyone aware of other sinister side-effects? thanks will