First Aid Tab Missing!

I've been having trouble with my hard disk. Disk First Aid was useless. I finally was able to rebuild the directory with Disk Warrior and boot up from my disk. Now I'm seeing all kind of weirdness...
In Disk Utility, the First Aid tab is gone! No matter which volume I select, all that I have are tabs for erase, RAID, restore or partition. (I had to boot from the install DVD to repair permissions.)
Anyone seen this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
G5 Dual 2 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

This would suggest that you have more than directory
problems, you also have damaged files. Disk Warrior
only fixes the directory, it does not fix files.
You could try TechTool Pro 4.1.1, which does have
routines to do some file fixing. However, you would
likely be better off reinstalling OS X. Assuming the
drive is OK you could do an Archive and Install. You can also try
additional disk repair by booting from your Tiger
DVD, then select Disk Utility from the installer's
Utilities menu. Use DU to repair the drive. If DU
reports errors it has fixed, then re-run Repair Disk
until no errors are reported.
Do not Archive and Install unless the drive is
verified as OK.
i've done all that, and more...
seems i have to replace my drive. but thanks for replying...

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