How do I start over with my mac book pro

I used disk utility and found my hard drive to be corrupt. How do I start over and clean this up?

Backup your Users data off the computer to regular storage drive (not TimeMachine), hold c boot off the 10.6 and use Disk Utility to Erase with Zero the entire drive of everything, this will map off any bad sectors and if you have enough spares, the drive shoudl work fine again.
Reinstall OS X, setup with the same user name, Software Update until clear, install your programs from fresh sources and return files from the storage drive, don't use TM to restore it's also corrupted image, just have to start all over again.
Read more, especially the section about bad sectors
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3044
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3172
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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How to Complain
You call customer service to complain about a product, and you hang up angrier than when you started. That’s customer rage, a feeling experienced by millions of people with a major complaint, says Scott Broetzmann, president an American firm that tells companies how to offer the best customer service. His secrets to getting good service:
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