Hard drive failing, need to recover data before it fully crashes

Tried these things:
--disk utility from startup disk (said disk could not be repaired and invalid node structure)
--disk warrior three times, which of course took like a week total (all times it said could not be repaired; got error codes 2160 and 2304, which after researching led me to the next step)
--firewire the HD on the macbook in target mode to a working mac and ran disk warrior from there (said couldn't be repaired again and to backup files. yes, great, that is what I want to do, but how?)
--tried to mount disk through disk util while it was connected via FW (could not mount disk, said to verify/repair disk first)
--tried disk util's repair disk function (got 'unused node is not erased'; upon research, found advice to use disk warrior. great, now I run around in circles?)
I can easily replace the hard drive, and will do so... as soon as I get this woman's data off her corrupt drive. Is it possible to do that at this point? I don't get how I can see the drive but can't get to the files on it!!!

General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

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