Hard drive missing

Hello there! Before making this post I searched for similar topics to see whether any of those suggestions could work for my case, but alas none have so it's time to post yet ANOTHER "can't find hard drive" post. Apologies if you're bored of these.
About a week ago my computer froze while running Safari. I took it as a normal freeze up and tried to Force Quit by going through the menu. Nothing happened so I shut it down using the Power button. I'd done it before and so didn't think much of it. Then a day or two later I turned it back on and got the lovely grey screen with the flashing question mark and two faces. I tried fixing the error w/ the installation disks, but when I click on the Disk Utility it doesn't read that there's a hard drive to format/repair. The installation CD is the only thing that it reads. I've also tried to just re-install the entire operating system even though I don't want to lose anything (I'm willing to do it though if that's the only way), but when asked to select the destination where to install the system, there's no hard drive to show. Nothing shows up. :o( I'm not that computer savvy so any help would be greatly appreciated!
It's my iMac G5 20" that is giving me issues. Bought it in late 2004, so it's one of the early models if that helps determine an effective way to fix!
Thanks in advance!

Thanks. Went and bought a new hard drive instead. It was hurting my head trying to figure things out and saw no point in buying software that may/may not help. The hard drive seemed pretty dead. :o(
Put the new hard drive in. The system install disc reads it (yaay!) but now I get the "You cannot install MAC OS X on this volume. You cannot start up your computer using this volume." sigh How do I fix THAT problem?
Keep in mind again, I am not that computer savvy. Could it be my version of Mac OS X that I'm trying to install? Is it too "old" for the new hard drive? Was considering upgrading to Leopard if this doesn't work out... if that's at all possible.
Help!

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