Help!!! Lost all data on internal & FireWire drives

Computer locked up while trying to install Xcode 4, after hard reboot I got the flashing question mark. After all attempts, (zapping pram, holding option key, safe mode, etc....) started up from install disk to restore from Time Machine. It could not locate my TM backup. Started up in Target Disk Mode and connected it to my MacBook, internal HD & FireWire TM external mounted on MB but they both show no data what so ever. It looks like whatever happened to lock the imac up erased all data on both drives.
Now what? I am going to try Data Rescue but it is not looking good.
Any other ideas?

Not as nasty, but a failed XCode 4 install rendered by boot drive unbootable. I did not loose data on any other of the 4 internal and 2 external drives that were attached at the time, including the boot drive. The install for the latest XCode that supports iOS 4.3.1 stalled about 2/3 the way while it was moving files. I did a hard reboot after 20 minutes without progress. I get as far as the Apple logo and spinning indicator, but cannot complete booting, even in safe mode. I can access everything on the corrupt boot drive including fixing permissions and checking the disk, but still cannot boot to it even though it is listed as a boot option. I now am backing up the data from the corrupt drive and will restore the drive from a somewhat outdated backup boot drive.

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