File system verify failed, now what?

I was about to upgrade to Snow Leopard from 10.5.8 and before that tried to back up my drive to a new G Drive. Using Carbon Copy Cloner the process quit in the middle when the G Drive unmounted itself. I ran Disk Utility Verify on the G Drive and it showed up ok. I then tried again and CCC again stopped but this time with an error message I do not recall. Then I tried SuperDuper and the backup hung on an App (Garage Band) for 15 minutes and I aborted the back up. I ran Verify on the G Drive again and it was fine so I ran Verify on the HD and got the following message:
Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 1111231 instead of 1111232)
Invalid volume directory count
(it should be 242475 instead of 242474)
The volume Macintosh Hard Drive needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
I have not tried the repair yet as I'm nervous I'm going to lose something. The drive isn't making noise but is slow. I've read suggestions of booting from the installation disc and then running Verify. My disc is 10.5.4, will I encounter issues after since I'm 10.5.8 now? Can I get a little hand holding here?
Machine is iMac, 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.5.8
Thanks,
Stuart

studog2 wrote:
I've read suggestions of booting from the installation disc and then running Verify.
No, you need to start from your Leopard Install disc and run Repair Disk.  See #6 in Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing  Disks.

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