Cannot open certain preferences after strange boot

I turned on my mid-2007 macbook, os 10.6.4, today and it had a grey loading bar on the boot screen which I have never (or don't remember) encountered in the three years that I've owned this. After the computer finally turned on, I noticed that my bluetooth icon in the menu bar had disappeared. I tried to open bluetooth preferences but I got "Could not open bluetooth preference pane."
I repaired disc permissions and restarted. I get the same error. I tried "resetting the SMC" and I get the same error. I tried deleting the com.apple.bluetooth.plist and restarting and I get the same error.
I noticed that other people with this problem were missing other preference panes so I checked and my keyboard, mouse, trackpad, network, and sharing panes "cannot be opened." Help?

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...your disk is starting to die. It's a good idea to be hyper-vigilent and obsessive-compulsive about backups for the next couple of weeks. If it doesn't happen again, then you can chalk it up to "just one of those things." Or you may realize that it always/only happens when you do something or run some particular program. Or you will have accelerating problems, and you should buy a replacement disk and do a swap.

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