Update 10.7.4 has triggered MBP catastrophic failure.. help!

Please Help!
2009 Macbook Pro 15.4" 4gb RAM (Unibody)
HD 500.11 GB FUJITUS MJA2...
I tried to install an update for 10.7.4 via the combo package. The update says it failed so I tried to install it again- every time I got to finalizing/moving things around stage of the update it would say that it failed. I believe it may have succeeded, at least partially. I went to restart my machine and now I am stuck at the Apple logo Grey screen. I have tried the following:
Shift for safemode: it got me through to user login once, but then I hit  restart and reset the PRAM and after that no  more safe mode success.
Safemode now fills up the progress bar to a certain point and then the bar just dissapears and I'm left with the spinning gear of infinity.
Verbose mode/single user mode: got me to a screen white text ending in:
"mac framework successfully initialized using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster I0 buffer headers"
There is no input allowed.
Target mode successfully gives me the target symbol, but I have not tried to access it as a drive.
I have managed to boot into CMD-R recovery mode and tried to repair my disk. Unfortunately it reads in red 'Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk....disk, and restore your backed-up files.' Upon 'Verify Disk' it red errors out with: Invalid node structure. The volume Macintosh HD coudl not be verified completely. Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
when I try to do other boot-key combos sometimes it will just turn on for a brief second and then turn back off again.
I have never tinkered around inside my machine either.
I don't have a current backup, I suppose that is what I will be doing now via target mode.
I have also checked for the flashback virus a couple weeks ago and was in the clear.

2009 MacBook Pro eh? It looks like your hard drive has failed. Three years is pretty standard. Often, then only hint you have is catastrophic failure.
If you put the old hard drive into an external enclosure or similar device, you may still be able to migrate your data from it. Just because it won't boot doesn't mean you can't still read from it. Still, I wouldn't keep trying it. As long as you are buying a new hard drive, may as well get sometime to use with Time Machine too.

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