Application Launch Failures & wont boot into OSX!!

My Powerbook was getting "Application Launch Failures" for a while within OSX, now it wont even boot. I get the question mark folder flash, then it goes away, and I get the grey screen with the Apple logo and spinning progress indicator...then it just stays there. I tried taking it into Safe Mode, but no luck. Does it sound like I need to reinstall OSX, or is the HD hosed?

It means required system files are corrupted. You may not need to reformat the hard drive and reinstall OS X by doing an Archive and Install:
How to Perform an Archive and Install
1. Be sure to use Disk Utility first to repair the disk before performing the Archive and Install.
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Do not proceed with an Archive and Install if DU reports errors it cannot fix. In that case use Disk Warrior and/or TechTool Pro to repair the hard drive. If neither can repair the drive, then you will have to erase the drive and reinstall from scratch.
3. Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When you reach the screen to select a destination drive click once on the destination drive then click on the Option button. Select the Archive and Install option. You have an option to preserve users and network preferences. Only select this option if you are sure you have no corrupted files in your user accounts. Otherwise leave this option unchecked. Click on the OK button and continue with the OS X Installation.
4. Upon completion of the Archive and Install you will have a Previous System Folder in the root directory. You should retain the PSF until you are sure you do not need to manually transfer any items from the PSF to your newly installed system.
5. After moving any items you want to keep from the PSF you should delete it. You can back it up if you prefer, but you must delete it from the hard drive.
6. You can now download a Combo Updater directly from Apple's download site to update your new system to the desired version as well as install any security or other updates. You can also do this using Software Update.

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I tried booting from an external hard drive with Snow Leopard installed on it, by holding down option at start up, but after selecting the external drive the computer just hangs at the apple screen. I also tried to boot from my installation discs that came with the iMac but it just froze at the drive select screen after selecting the dvd, the same happened with a Snow Leopard installation disc.
After resetting the pram and nvram the start up chime now sounds again, and the computer now hangs at the apple logo when I try to boot from the installation dvds instead of freezing at the boot selection.
I did a hardware check by holding down command and d at starup and the scan returned no problems.
If I try to boot in verbose mode i get an error saying that fsck exits through signal 8 (atleast that's the gist of it, it shuts down to quickly for me to copy it word for word).
Here's where the problem gets really strange though, after trying multiple live cd's I have laying around most of them freezing at some point during the boot up, I've found that the Windows 7 64 bit installation disc and Ubuntu Natty 64 bit both boot fine from disc. From the Ubuntu live cd I've managed to mount my Mac's hard drive and everything still seems to be there. I've noticed that with both these discs I get 2 dvd boot options at the boot selection screen, one saying windows (regardless of weather it is actually the windows disc) and one saying efi boot, if I select the one saying efi boot, again, the computer just hangs at the apple screen.
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