Finder Crashing, No Dock, Applications Crashing

Question

I'm having serious issues with my Finder crashing. I was having font problems, and my Adobe products (InDesign, etc) would not start up so I removed all fonts except System fonts and restarted. Now the font that is displayed along the menu bar is not the regular system font, my dock is missing, whenever I try to open My Computer folder the Finder crashes (I get this code in Console: Oct 27 17:00:57 Miles-Woolens-Computer crashdump[241]: Finder crashed), I cannot run any of my Adobe products (I get this message in Console: 2007-10-27 17:10:12.703 Adobe Crash Reporter[247] 246), when I click on a menu item in the menu bar the pull down list is empty. I ran the Hardware test and found no problems, so I started up from the install disc and ran Disk Utility which couldn't repair some problems (Invalid file strings, Invalid file numbers... I'll run it again and repost exactly what it couldn't repair). I also tried reinstalling the basic system software by archiving the previous system and I got an error message that said installation failed. Does any one have any ideas on what could be happening and what I can do to fix the problem??
I also got this message about 10 times in Console while writing this: 2007-10-27 17:16:34.332 SyndicationAgent[249] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Sat 27 Oct 2007 15:07:23 -800'

Answer 1

Here is what Disk Utility reports to me:
After Checking Catalog File it comes up with "Incorrect Number of Thread Records" twice.
Then, later it says this:
Invalid Volume Directory Count
(Lists what it is and what it should be)
Invalid Volume File Count
(lists what it is and what it should be)