G-5 won't recognize internal HD

I bought an imac in Dec, before I made my first payment the intel was introduced (***** for me, but that's what I get for waitng LOL) Anyway, I've had no problems until last week. It started when my son unpluged a firewire device (3rd gen ipod) with out ejecting it. I got the spinning disk in finder... force quit everything, reset finder. Same deal. looks like it's trying, but stuff won't work. I got disk utility to come up and did the verify, fix, verify (uh-oh) fix again until it came clean and verify said no prob twice in a row. I tried to restart...(Dum-da-dumm-dumm)
I can restart from the install disc, but when I go into disk utility it says my hard drive has 0 capacity and is not permissable for S.M.A.R.T. I try first aid and it lets me choose the disk but none of the 4 options are available. I tried to restore the HD but it wont accept it as a destination. When I try to start up I get a strange audio beeping pattern, like 2 notes, 1 lower, 1 higher repeating 4 or 5 times per sequence, 3 or 4 sequences before it goes to the (?) screen if I try to start the mac or the start up screen if I boot from the disc.
Hardware test comes up ok, I have reset PRAM, safe start, "X" start... it's like the HD isn't there. I have even Firewired the G-5 to my G-4 laptop and started it as a target disk. It doesnt come up. I'm stuck. Help please.

I found my reciept, and Apple care wasn't on it. So I went to the Apple store and bought it again,(not needed cause it was hardware within 1 year) and when I tried to register it they said I already had it and credited my card...Apple can make mistakes, but by-god they take care of ya when they see it happened. The exception is .Mac- I have bought products that have a free year-but I'm already a member. I think I should be able to type in my id and get the next year free, cause I bought it and it gives you 1 free year, right? well when I do, as many of you know, it says "Sorry, that ID is taken blah blah blah..." so if you are already paying, I.E. if you are a loyal Apple customer... And I think it *****. They should add it to your existing expiration.

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