Can't boot into 10.5 anymore, please help

So the unthinkable happened and water spilled onto my MacBook. I quickly shut it off and let it dry out. When I booted again a few day later it comes up to a blue screen, the mouse appears and then it goes to a light blue screen with a spinning gray pinwheel. I tried to boot of my Install DVD but it appears not to be working. When I hold down 'C' at power on, nothing happens. When I try the "option" button aproach I only see a MacHD icon. The CD spins, but dosn't apear to read.
Any one have any ideas on how I can restore my Mac from Single-User mode? I already tried the fsck with no luck (says everything is OK).
*UPDATE:
1)Went into single-user mode
2)Mount -uw /
3)Typed "fsck" from root
4) Reply was below:
**Root File System
**Verifying volume when it is mounted with write access
**Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Volume is journaled. No Checking performed
Use the -f option to force checking
***FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***
**REBOOT NOW**
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 4
Did a imediate fsck -fy, results below:
**Root File System
**Verifying volume when it is mounted with write access
**Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
**Checking Extents Overflow File
**Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect number of thread records
(4, 33360)
Incorrect number of thread records
(4, 33360)
Invalid Leaf record count
(It should be 1958466 instead of 1958478)
**Checking multi-linked files
**Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Invalid directory item count
(It should be 12 instead of 24)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 186728 instead of 186729)
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 792495 instead of 792497)
**Checking Extended Attributes file.
**Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
**Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 5143549 instead of 5143366)
Volume Header needs minor repair
(2, 8)
**Cannot repair volume when it is mounted with write access.
**The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired
***FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***
**REBOOT NOW**
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 4

I was hoping you had a cloned backup of your internal drive, but it sounds like you don't. You're kind of up a creek without being able to boot from your CD drive either. You can't even reformat the drive at this point. If you can get your hands on an external USB burner, you could boot from your install disk and reformat the drive or run DiskWarrior from there. Even that may not work though if your logic board has a problem and the USB ports are out. You can see how important a bootable backup is for emergency troubleshooting now.
Dave M.
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