G5 Won't start up.. I've tried all the tricks I know.

OK.. so the other day I restart my G5 Tower because it was a little sluggish.. haven't restarted in a while so I re-booted ... the grey apple screen comes up.. then the Starting mac osx progress bar loads all the way to the end.. then just hangs... if I left it there for hours it would still be there.. I have tried everything I know and could find on these boards as well as osx help articles.. here is what I have done.
first:
started up from install cd.. tried to repair volume couldn't complete the repair. apparently there are like 40 overlapping files somehow.
second:
ran diskwarrior 3.0.3 got all the way through the process to where it says it is repairing overlapping files then suddenly there is an error and it can't continue.. Did this three times
third:
tried to boot in safe mode.. spinning gear then goes to starting mac osx progress bar and same story .. hangs for eternity.. bar is still moving but I can't get past this screen.
fourth:
booted in single user mode ran fsck 4 times until it said nothing appears to be wrong....
re-booted and same thing happens Starting mac osx screen comes up progress bar loads til the end and never goes any further.
fifth:
Booted from OSX install cd tried to archive and install OS... wouldn't even begin to do this just said there is an error and to try again... Tried this twice.
sixth:
tried booting in target disk mode hoping I could just copy a few essential files I hadn't recently backed up with the intention of doing an erase and install of the whole computer.. couldn't get my laptop to see the G5 HD on the desktop.. opened disk utility on the laptop and it shows up but won't enable any repair options.
So at this point I am at a serious loss. It appears I have a serious problem with something like 40 overlapping files that are causing all this misery but I can't get to the files to delete them.. and nothing I run can repair them
at this point I just want to get in to the HD anyway I can to backup so I can do an erase and install with Leopard. Anyone have any input out there that might be able to help?
PS: I have just enough knowledge of using the terminal to make me a danger to myself.. so if any input you have comes in the form of 500 command lines then please either spell it out in detail so I know exactly what to type and when.. or just please act as though you don't see me flailing my arms on this rapidly sinking ship.

Sounds like possib;y putting the HD in an external Firewire case, (possibly Target mode if that still works), then If DiskWarrior can't fix it, you might try Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
Or FileSalvage...
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?%20mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
to recover what you can.

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