Am I totally hosed?

Yesterday I was running carbon copy cloner to back up my hard drive to my firewire. I keep the firewire drive bootable in case the worst happens.
Apparently it did. The system totally locked up (normal back-up takes less than an hour and after four hours it was still struggling and making no progress) and had to do a hard reboot. When the sytem came back up OS X wouldn't start. Just a black screen and occasion disk I/O error messages.
Restarted again holding down the option key. Booted off the firewire drive and the back-up had finished for my son's account but not my account. I ran the TechTools program that came with AppleCare and updated it to the most current version. Then I checked the internal drive TT showed errors and wanted to repair. I held off repairing and manually moved over the handful of iTunes purchases that hadn't backed-up to the firewire drive. Then logged out and restarted using the OS X install disk to run the hardware diagnostic. It confirmed errors on the internal drive.
I booted again off the firewire drive, pulled some missing photos off the internal drive but iPhoto said four of them were unreadable, moved over my mail mailboxes that hadn't been updated and ran TT again and again it found errors and wanted to do some pretty nasty repairs that would reduce the size of the drive. I went ahead and ran it figuring that if that worked I could try reformatting the internal drive and if it passed verification I could just clone the external drive over and keep on going.
So I gave it permission and nothing seemed to happen. So I went on the net to check for similar problems and suddenly the screen grayed out and in the gray out a dark but transparent box appeared and said I had to power down immediately by using the power button. So I complied.
Now when I try to boot off the external drive it takes a loooong time to get the blue bar to go all the way across to start OS X once it gets there the box doesn't close but the log-in box pops up and does not have any users. I enter my username and password and the lollipop spins then the box shakes. I've tried logging in as other users and still same story.
So I booted off the OS X install disk again and ran disk utility. Shows the external drive is fine but needs to repair permissions. I let it repair a bundle of them. Start again and same long attempt to start OS X, same lack of user information, same failure to recognize users and passwords.
After running the repair with techtools, the system no longer believes the internal drive exists.
Boot again off the install disk and try to reset passwords and it shows no users at all on the external drive.
Obviously the internal drive is hosed. Don't have the error code in front of me but had looked it up and basically the answer was it is dead.
Have I lost my back-up as well? Any ideas why all this going on?

Finally resolved the problem.
The internal drive crashed during the cloning process. Apparently that corrupted the user information files.
I did an archive and install without saving user information to get running again and boot off the external drive.
I'm still dragging stuff up out of the "Previous System" folders but I'm running and will hopefully go get my new internal drive installed this weekend.

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Hey guys,
So I understand the kinds of things that I was doing were risky, and I take complete responsibility for this macbook being hosed.
However, I can't imagine why I should not be able to get this guy working again.
Here is the story:
1. 10.4.6 running fine on macbook (intel)
2. I decide windows might be nice too..
3. Use bootcamp, install windows, no problem.
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5. I decide I want to have two OSX partitions, in order to make experiments on one side and just hang out on the other.
6. While using bootcamp to create another partition, bad things happen. (no detail needs, just keep reading)
7. Now my goal is to get just one version of OSX to work on the macbook.
8. I can not get the OSX disc to boot from the cd drive.
9. Windows installer disc, and Ubuntu installer disc work just fine.
10. Now I have Ubuntu installed on the macbook. No matter what I do I can not get the OSX disc I have to boot from the Macbook.
I've tried:
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2. Holding down c at startup
3. deleting the PRAM by key combo and having the mac chime 4 times
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4b. Reformating the entire macbook drive (using all the difrent patition schemes)
5. Having a really long hard stare at it
6. Holding down the c at startup
7. Holding down the c at startup really hard!
8. I think that's it.
So, I've got a awesome macbook that runs ubuntu really well. But I love osx.
Help?

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Recovered!
For those who in the future may attempt a kernel upgrade with a bad /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
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setting all the appropriate mounts (I have a bunch of disks on this machine...)
setting up a chroot'ed environment.
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Re-ran the /sbin/mkinitcpio commands copied from /var/log/pacman.log
which happily replaced my /boot/*.img files with sensible things instead of the bit-scribbles left by the upgrade.
-dave

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Please Help! Ready to throw my iPhone out the window!

First time posting on the forums but it's gotten to the point where my phone isn't even usable and I either need some answers or a good excuse to smash it.
So here's the story:
I got my iPhone 3G (black, 16GB) in September (I think), last year. The phone operated fine with only minor annoyances as software updates came down to fix issues, no big deal. About 10 months in, the phone starts acting up:
If you want clarification on some problem, ask. I don’t want to type out 8 paragraphs if I don’t have to, should be pretty self-explanatory.
Before OS 3:
1.) Can’t slide to answer calls. After ringing stops phone behaves normally.
2.) Doesn’t charge from wall or computer (happened randomly). Plug phone in, it says it’s charging but never charges.
3.) Can’t end calls / call doesn’t end when other line is hung up (thanks for wasting my minutes).
(these problems persist even with hard resets and full restores, including setting the phone up as a new phone rather than restoring from a backup)
After OS 3 AND full restore:
1.) Can’t slide to answer calls. After ringing stops phone behaves normally.
2.) Can’t end calls / call doesn’t end when other line is hung up (thanks for wasting my minutes).
(same as above, problems persist with hard resets and the like)
At any rate, I was home one weekend and figured I’d take the phone to the Genius bar at the Mayfair Mall Apple Store. Sounded like a good plan until I get to the mall and find the store is being renovated (seriously Apple, you can’t just put that on your site that a store is closed for some reason? Give me a break). Home is 3 hours away for me and the closest Apple store is 2.5 hours away. Awesome.
I deal with the problems for another month or so until my girlfriend and I take a trip to visit her friend in Minnesota. While there we go to the Mall of America so I decide to go to the Apple Store there (which is flappin’ giant, by the way). I explain my problems to the ‘Genius’ as well as informing him of the numerous restores/resets I’ve done both before and after the 3.0 update. He checks the phone for water damage and concludes that the headphone/dock ports are dusty which is causing the charging problem. I proceed to tell him I’ve cleaned them with compressed air before and the problems continued but he’s the ‘Genius’ so I let him do his thing and clean them again. Afterwards, he concludes (via the iPhone diagnostic software they have) that since I haven’t done a restore in about a month that I should do another one as that will likely remedy the problem. Right. Was he even listening when I explained that the problems happened before and after the 3.0 update or that I had on numerous occasions attempted to remedy the problem with hard resets and restores? Nope. My girlfriend over hears this (she is aware of the problems I was having and is a Apple-certified hardware technician at our local Mac store) and comes over to reiterate (albeit slightly more forcefully than I had initially) that the problems occur regardless of restore state or software version. The ‘Genius’ finally decides he can replace the phone after explaining to him that we are not anywhere near an Apple store and that there’s little time left in the warranty. I get my new phone set up and ready to go. Whew.
Everything is great. Phone works, no issues. Until ~2 months ago, new issues start cropping up.
OS 3.1+ (happen on all versions):
1.) Can’t sync, get “unable to complete. Phone was disconnected.” Error. (I checked around the forums and tried a few things but was unable to resolve the issue, including trying to remove the files that it kept ‘disconnecting’ on when it got to, no effect)
2.) Installing an application (be it via App Store on the phone or via sync with my desktop) results in the phone being unable to boot if turned off. When attempting to turn it back on, Apple logo shows then phone goes off after a few seconds. Only way to resolve this is by booting the phone directly to restore mode and doing a full restore.
3.) Earlier this week, my phone wouldn’t boot after having no apps (0, zero, zip, nada) on it after restoring it a few weeks back. Apple logo showed up then the spinning loading animation overlaid on the logo only to freeze. Attempted booting again and it came on (whew).
4.) Today, my phone wouldn’t boot at all, again, no apps are on or have been on the phone since I last restored it. Tried turning it off/on a few times, no good. I ended up restoring the phone again.
At first, my girlfriend was convinced that it was because I was synching with my desktop PC (obviously, blame it on the PC first), which I’ve been using since I got the phone and everything was fine until both phones randomly decided to crap out. I ended up restoring it on my MacBook Pro as a new phone just to see but the same thing happens with the apps causing it to not boot. After that we thought that it might be a single (or a few) apps that were just taking the phone down for some reason. I restored the phone with no apps and it seemed to be ok so I put 3 apps that I’ve had pretty much since they were available (and used to work without issue) back on to see. The plan was to add a few apps until the phone stopped working properly to narrow down the offending app. Just kidding! Just having those 3 apps (Beejive IM, Facebook, iDracula) causes the phone to not boot. I restore and try just Facebook. Same thing, phone doesn’t boot. Restore, try just Beejive. Same thing, phone won’t boot. By the way, the phone doesn’t boot even without me having LAUNCHED THE APPS AT ALL. Just by being on my phone it’s totally hosed.
At this point I have no idea what to do. I want to like my iPhone again but it’s terribly worthless when I have to restore it every other day and can’t use my ~$90 worth of apps (PS: even Apple’s own ‘Remote’ app brings the phone down). I really, really hate to say it but my old HTC Hermes (Windows Mobile 5/6) PDA phone was better than this (and WinMo is god-awful).
Does anyone have any suggestions? My phone is out of warranty now and I don’t have money to buy another phone even if I wanted to.
Also, I treat my phone like a baby. It hasn't been dropped a single time, been near water, or operated outside of the safe operating temp guidlines.
I'm willing to elaborate on any of the information I provided above, just let me know.
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If all of the above have no effect then as Tamara said it is time for a trip to the Genius bar.
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