Hard Drive about to Kill Itself? Help!

I think my HD is about to go on my Mac Pro...here's the story...suggestions welcome!
I have a 10/2007 Mac Pro. I have four HDs inside:
Bay 1: Boot Drive
Bays 2/3: Raid Drive for all data (photos, music, documents, movies)
Bay 4: Partitioned drive ... one side is the Windows partition and one is used to periodically back up the boot drive using Super Duper. This partition is made bootable.
I also have two external drives: one backs up the RAID data drive daily, and one is a Time Machine drive (I also keep a portable drive at the office that I bring home once a week to back up the RAID data drive to keep off site).
On Thursday evening, I had trouble opening iPhoto and Aperture. Very strange. I repaired permissions, to no avail. When I rebooted, the screen did not receive a signal. After a few attempts at unplugging/replugging the DVI, the screen came on (I tested another monitor today with a different DVI cable, so it's not the monitor or cable).
I did a SuperDuper backup of my boot drive out of concern. After nearly two hours, it failed (I sent the report to the company). Before it failed, it was incredibly slow...peaking at 7.5 mb/s and dropping to less than 1! I turned Time Machine off during this process as well.
I just did a time machine backup ... after 45 minutes, it's only up to 1.9MB out of 2.3 MB!! Uh-oh.
Earlier, I tried to boot to the DVD of Mac OSX, but it would not; when I did reboot, I went into System Preferences and chose to boot from the DVD, which it did. I ran Disk Utility and it said the disk was fine. I decided to click "repair" anyway, but it said that it could not unmount the disk.
My thoughts (and I know very little)....the drive is about to go. I'm thinking of booting to the backup drive and running the machine for a bit. If that works, I could drop a new drive in Bay 1, format it properly, then SuperDuper the back-up boot drive (from which I booted) to the new drive, then boot from there.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance...

According to the crash report by Super Duper, the destination disk was bad. I took it out and everything seems fine. Perhaps just being on the bus it was reeking havoc. New drive goes in tomorrow....

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