Hard Drive Needs Repair - Cannot Be Fixed?

I've been having trouble with my MBP as of late.
The problem first originated when I was having trouble with some DJ equipment that uses an external hard drive. When I called the tech support for the DJ equipment, I was told to run Disk Utility on both the external and laptop hard drives. The external came back clean but the hard drive on the MBP gave reason for distress.
I clicked "Verify Disk" and it begins to run. It finds a few issues and says "Volume Macintosh HD needs repair." and allows me to input my password. However, at that point, a new window pops up saying that "Underlying task failed to unmount" and then goes back to the Disk Utility window. My concern is that after that window closes, the "Repair Disk" button is still grayed out so not only is there a problem, I cannot fix it.
The computer has been acting weird lately as well, like deleting all shortcuts on the left side of the Finder except my user shortcut, desktop, network, and Macintosh HD (ie: Apps, Docs, Music, Pics, and Movies disappeared).
Any suggestions? I have AppleCare till mid-2009.

You try Disk Utility first. Insert your Tiger installer disk and restart while holding down the 'c' key. Select your language and then from the menu>Utilities>Disk Utility. Select your hard drive and then Repair Disk.

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Dear all,
I have used the Disk Utility software to check my hard drive and it gave me an error message. I used "Verify Disk" and the message was the following: "Disk Utility stopped verifying Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: "Filesystem verify or repair failed." In addition to this, in the details shown in the little window under "First Aid" the following message came up: "The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired."
Since the button "Repair Disk" was unavailable, I tried the "Verify Disk Permissions" button. Once permissions verification was completed (although a number of errors were reported in the detailed report given), I tried the "Repair Disk Permissions" button. The result of this latest action was again a series of error messages in the detailed report but at the end the permissions repair was completed. At the end of this process I was still not able to "Repair Disk."
I am writing to see based on your experiences what is the likely problem in my HD and secondly how I can fix the HD. What should I do to repair the HD?
Any suggestions and thoughts would be most appreciated.
Regards,
R

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