HD needs to be repaired - Simultainous Upgrade?

I posted earlier about my mac running a bit off. I got great customer service from local repair shop in town over the phone. I was told to run disk utility and that I could upgrade as far as 10.7.
Well, I ran disk utility and I got this message:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
(S,
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Missing thread record (id = 359397)
Missing thread record (id = 388732)
Missing thread record (id = 398293)
Missing thread record (id = 435787)
Missing thread record (id = 445374)
Missing thread record (id = 454742)
Missing thread record (id = 463914)
Missing thread record (id = 472796)
Missing thread record (id = 481787)
Missing thread record (id = 491713)
Missing thread record (id = 501267)
Missing thread record (id = 510403)
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 598958 instead of 598982)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
So after much reading online I have figured out that if I insert the leopard 10.5 installation disk I can repair my hard drive (I no longer have this disk)
So here is my quesion: (and please correct anything above if my understanding is wrong)
Since I am going to be purchasing an installation disk anyway...can I
1. go ahead and purchase the 10.6 disk and still repair my hard drive, then upgrade (or upgrade then repair the hard drive or will installing the new 10.6 automatically repair anything that was wrong with the hard drive) or
2. will I have to purchase 10.5 repair the hard drive then purchase 10.6 to upgrade
Would someone please help me with this. I'm not trying to find a quick answer without putting in the work, I have searched online for answers to these questions for hours and the repair shop is now closed...I would just like someone to help me before I pull all my hair out

Obviously, you cannot repair the drive without an installation DVD or another bootable device such as a bootable external backup drive. This can be either a Leopard or Snow Leopard disc.
You need to repair the disk before trying to upgrade OS X. You do not need the Leopard DVD if you have a Snow Leopard DVD.
In the interim you can try doing the following:
Boot into single-user mode.  After startup is completed you will be in command line mode and should see a prompt with a cursor positioned after it.  At the prompt enter the following then press RETURN:
/sbin/fsck -fy
If you receive a message that says "***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****" then re-run the command until you receive a message that says "** The volume (name_of_volume) appears to be OK."  If you re-run the command more than seven times and do not get the OK message, then the drive cannot be repaired this way. If you were successful then enter:
reboot
and press RETURN to restart the computer.

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