Hard drive keeps getting corrupted

I've got a troublesome issue with my MacBook this past month, and I think may hard drive is flaking out.
A few weeks ago I experienced some serious crashes in OS X where everything would just freeze. Spinning-beach-ball-of-death freezes. There'd be no way to recover from these freezes aside from hard-rebooting the computer. After a couple of these (within the same day) I ran Disk Utility from my Leopard disc and tried to repair the hard drive. This failed, however, and then left me unable to boot from my Macintosh HD volume at ALL (I had Windows set up in Boot Camp; that was also experiencing some dire crashes). My only fix was to reformat and try again. After I had zero'd out the hard drive and reinstalled everything, it was okay for another couple of weeks.
Now it's happened again, and I tried repairing the volume in Disk Utility only to be met with a bunch of "invalid node structure" messages, a bunch of "invalid thread counts" and what nots; a bunch, like almost 50. My Windows partition is still okay, but I'm sure it'll be a matter of time before it begins to fail, too.
Do I have a faulty hard drive? Or is there some piece of rogue software that is killing my hard drive? I'm inclined to think it's the hard drive itself, because I haven't introduced any new software to the system in a while now, and I'm not doing any radical behaviors that would goof up my directory structure.
Help!

As a follow up, the hard drive was indeed bad. I took it in for repair and all was right with the world (still is, several months later).

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