10.5.8 Update causing havoc

I was happily using my laptop last night when Software Update popped up telling me to install the new Mac OS X 10.5.8 Update. I ran the update in the background and carried on what I was doing. I then had to restart. The computer rebooted and the installation progress bar appeared. It got about half way and then said that the file was damaged and that updater could not continue. The computer then reboot. It hung on the grey screen for a while then automatically rebooted. It booted fine then to the desktop however I noticed the menu bar at the top wasn't there, only the icons (airport, battery etc.) showed up against the desktop picture. I realised then that there was no HD icon, and the dock was unresponsive.
So I turned off the computer by holding down the power button after a while then rebooted, and the same thing again happened, this time saying "iCal Help quit unexpectedly", then another box saying that both "Finder" and "Dock" quit unexpectedly. It wouldn't let me relaunch anything as everything is unresponsive.
So, I tried the whole holding down Cmd Alt P & R at start up. No change. Then I tried the power reset thing. But no luck. I booted in safe mode but nothing boots except the desktop picture.
I then ran disk utility from the Installation disk. Both Verify & Repair Disk Permissions buttons are faded out and I cannot click them. However when Verifying Disk I get this message:
Keys out of order
The volume HD needs to be repaired.
Error:Filesystem verify or repair failed.
Then a popup box appears which says:
Firt Aid failed
Disk Ulitity stopped verifying "HD" because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
So then, when clicking Repair Disk I get:
Keys out of order
Rebuilding Catalog B-tree
And the rest is then the same, and I got exactly the same message.
When I ran fsck in single user mode I got more or less the same:
** /dev/rdisk0s2
** Root file system
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus Volume..
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
Keys out of order
(4, 2389)
** Rebuilding Cataolg B-tree.
** The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.
*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***
Please help. Is there any way to uninstall the 10.5.8 update? Why would an update from Apple cause such a mess?!?

Hi Samuel Marr;
In addition to William's excellent advice, it could have been the shutdown with the power button that you did. Since shutting off with the power button forces the system to stop without completing what is doing this can cause file corruption. The system uses a file to maintain the B-tree. If was work on that file when you hit the power button that could produce the error you are seeing now.
Allan

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