G4 Startup Drive Crash problems

My G4 crashed last night and it wont load past the grey apple screen now.
I booted from an external HDD's OS to try to fix the startup drive with Disk Warrior or Disk Utility. I have a lot of important data on the internal startup drive that's giving me an error and I can't get it to work with either Disk Utility or Disk Warrior. (please note that the internal drive with the errors is always unmounted)
Here are the errors I get with each application.
Disk Utility: Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
1 HFS Volume checked
1 Volume could not be repaired because of an error.
Disk Warrior: (This application stalls up on step 5 which is "Locating directory data")
it then says: Speed inhibited by disk malfunction.
I have a lot of extremely important data that has to do with my career on this drive. I can't afford to lose it, so I need any help anyone can give me to help repair or at least salvage the data before wiping the drive.
Thank you in advance.

I've used Tech Tool Pro 4 before now which yielded some fairly good results, not used DW before though, but you could look here:
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/dwvsdwre.html - though you will have to buy DW again
or: http://www.micromat.com/
I've heard of another tool but can't remember the name (sorry) I'll ask the person who told me & I'll post back tomorrow.
Also you may find something free online if you look hard enough. Does anyone know a of a good downloadable program?
Rory

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