Darwin/bsd concole appears at start up - can reinstall system

Hi everyone, I am trying to recover data from my G3 600MHz/256mb ibook which was running 10.3.9 until very recently
The software update was running when the computer crashed - I cant be certain what upgrade was taking place
Now when the computer starts the gui appears but before the user dialogue comes up the screen turn black and I get a darwin/bsd console with the following dialogue
(the date) SystemStarter: /System/Library/StartupItems/Cron
(the date) SystemStarter: -execution of Startup script failed
(the date) SystemStarter:
(the date) SystemStarter: /System/Library/StartupItems/LoginWindow
(the date) SystemStarter: -execution of Startup script failed
(the date) SystemStarter: "
My first attempt to fix this was to use the panther reinstall disks - although it couldnt detect the ibooks startup volume. I opened diskutility - it could detect the ibook volume but said that it wasnt mounted and that it needed to be repaired - i tried - it failed
I then tried rebooting the ibook in single user mode (command-S) on startup... i dont pretend to know what im doing here but the following points on the screen seemed interesting
"BSD root: disk0s5, major 14, minor 5
disk0s5: I/O error"
Im really out of my depth here, but if anyone knows a way that i can recover the data from the ibooks hard drive and maybe do a clean install of the os I would really appreciate it!

Hi Guys, apologies for the delay
Having recently bought a firewire cable I have tried using the ibook in target drive mode to recover the data onto my G4 powerbook.
First of all the ibook drive did not mount on the G4 desktop. It was detected in disk utility but as before the drive could not be repaired. I then tried using disk warrior which managed to mount a preview of a repaired ibook HD. When I tried to save the changes, however, disk warrior hung. I have managed to back up the required data from the previewed mount though. So then I tried to erase the ibook HD for a clean install, first using the OS restore disks, then using the ibook in firewire target mode again - both failed with unknown error -20.
So, my data is safe but i still cant erase the HD and make a clean install, does anyone have any suggestions?
many thanks
rob
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)
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