How to copy from a damaged drive

I have an external that is failing...
Disk Util won't fix (says to reformat the drive...thanks disk util)
I am trying to copy the thousands of files over, but when it reaches a damaged file, it stops copying completely - then I need to select, drag, and drop...over and over and over.
Is there any way to get the mac to think critical - to do what ANY reasonable person might do - and that is to skip the damaged file, and keep copying the selected files? Is there any way to get the Mac to do that?
Seriously - did the programmers really think the user would want to stop each time the mac encountered a damaged file and want to re-select everything except the damaged files to copy?
It is very, very frustrating. I love the mac....but holy cow that is incredible stupid to have the copy program behave that way.
Any work around please would be very helpful and time-saving.

Thanks Niel!
Can you give a little more help?
This is what I learned.
ditto src_directory dst_directory
However, I have no idea the syntax for an external drive src_directory, or even the syntax of the local directory.
external drive is called Carisa's WD - and directory is called Carisa's comp backup. Local directory is on the desktop called carisa's comp backup.

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I don't mean to be rude, but there aren't many people who can (or should try to) pull off using Arch as their first linux distribution. It is intended for people who are already well aware of what they are doing. Perhaps you should start with Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Mandriva, or something of the sort. Ubuntu being the most popular choice, for whatever that means..
That said, there are many on the forums who started here first and are doing fine, so "shrug". It's really about attitude, willingness to work for it (looking thoroughly for your answers before asking, especially), and willingness to learn really. Just a word of advice..
On that note, mounting cd's I'm sure is written all over google, and these forums tend to either ignore or bitch at people who haven't already looked for their question thoroughly on such, with good reason.
Also, please see the forum etiquette http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette here. It's not okay to bump your posts so quickly. There is an edit button there for a reason.
Also, why did you link to those 3 database files? db.tar.gz files do not contain actual packages, just information about them.. you would need to download a bunch of xfce packages.. db.tar.gz files wont help you. I don't see how they relate to the rest of your post, either..
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