HELP!!! WHERE ARE MY HARD DRIVES???

I am desperate so I am posting this in a couple of areas in hopes to get a rapid solution.
I am running a dual 2ghz G5 with two internal S-ATA drives and several firewire external drives. Tonight I was working with one firewire drive plugged in and have been having some weird issues while working (crashes, freezes and hangs) so I decided to run a Disk Utility scan. It froze during this scan and I was forced to power down and reboot. After starting back up the only drive being recognized of the three in operation is the system drive. I can see my other S-ATA drive and the firewire drive in Disk Utility but cannot get them to mount AT ALL! I have also tried plugging the firewire drive into my Macbook Pro and have the same reaction. I tried target disc mode using my Macbook Pro as the controller and have the same reaction. I have the ability to run a check on the G5 system drive but not the other two.
The message I am getting from Disk Utility on both drives when I try to verify or repair is: Invalid B-Tree node size, The Volume ... needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Volume needs repair.
All of that is in red (of course).
Please help! I need this back up and running or I'm cooked!
Thanks,
Chris
G5/Macbook Pro 17   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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