Computer wont boot on either drive...help!

Ok check this out. I had one 80GB Master drive with OS X 10.2.6 installed, and it had all my .dmg and .sit apps on there. I had another 35GB IBM Drive with NO OS, but it has all my movies.

The other day, I restarted my computer, and I got a screen with a system folder and a question mark. After trying for an hour getting it to boot (changing jumpers on HDs, etc.) I went to another mac in my house. I used the program "Boot CD" and made a Bootable OS X 10.2 Copy. On there, I put DiskWarrior 3.

So, I boot from it, and it finds both my hardrives. I attempt to rebuild my main 80GB hardrive, and I eventually getting an error saying "The disk inserted is unreadable my Mac OS X (or something like that."

It gave me a report, and said it tried to repair like 35000 files, 86 files damaged, etc. I ran Disk Utility from the CD, Verified my disk. I got the error "Invalid B-Tree something". So, I tried repair, and it cant repair it.

I then booted from my Jag CDs, and attempted to archive and install OS X onto my main HD. It cant find the drive. I can see it in disk utility, and it knows the drive size, but it cant read the volume on the drive. I try to mount it, and it wont.

So, I decided to install OS X on my Movie drive, hoping that i could work from there and save some apps off my main HD. I installed OS X, everything was working great. I installed BackUp, Safari, and I was running the 10.2.6 updates and stuff.

It asked to reboot, so I did. During the reboot (after the screen where it says Mac OS X and it has all tthe stuff loading) it got stuck on an all blue screen. I could move the mouse, the hardrives were not ticking, it was just sitting there.

I tried rebooting multiple times, and the same thing happened. I tried zapping the p-ram, nothing happened.

What the hell should I do? I REALLY dont want to have to boot from the Jag CDs, and erase completely my drives. I have TONS and TONS of apps and stuff on there. Not just apps, but installers. I dont want to loose my 50 movies either! Or my 1100 songs!

This really sucks. Please help. And i know someone will get pissed at me for asking this, but if you have a copy of Norton or Drive 10 or something you think might let me save some files, let me know, or PM me. I just need a one time use!

 

Where im at

Ok, I have not tested the RAM yet, but im about 99 percent sure thats not the problem, because i have been having little drive problems every now and then.

This is where I am at:

I have made another Boot CD with Norton Utilities, and disk warrior 3 on it. I am currently running the Volume Saver application. Its found like 90 thousand files

But, the progress bar is like 1/20th done, and its been on for about 2 hours. I think I may stop the task within 2 hours.

I also tried running Norton Disk Verifier or some crap. Every time i tried to verify the disk, the application quit.

I guess I will try the RAM next...

And no, I was not trying to boot into 9. I was just restarting my computer, because i had just installed Stitcher (photo stitch program).

I dont think thats the problem either, because i was using the app before restart.

I was having a few problems like this before. I would boot up, and my machine would sit there looking for an OS. To fix it, I would have to shut down, unplug my slave drive, boot up again, and durin the white screen w/the gray apple, i would plug the slave back in.