How to repair corrupt drive [and transfer to ssd]

Hello,
I have an early 2009 tower. Doing maintenance, I've discovered that my Macintosh HD is corrupt (disk uitility verify tool). I am instructed to hit "repair disk," but that is not possible (greyed out). What do I do to recover my disk? I've begun backups already.
I want to fix this as painlessly as possible (I have myriad programs installed that I don't want to install again:CS5, Maya, Final Cut Pro, etc). Also, I just ordered a 120gb ssd that I want to put my startup files and applications on [to be installed in optical bay 2].
Finally, in adition to the terabyte drive the Macintosh Hd resides on (the corrupt startup disk), there is a terabyte backup drive in bay two if that helps. (I am backing up my most vital files on that as well as an external).
Main Point: My goal is to transistion to the ssd as smoothly as possible even though my main HD is corrupted.
Many thanks,
Grant

If your main Hard Drive is corrupt, you should try to repair it, as described above.
But it is not smart to use it as the basis for your new Boot Drive. If there are ANY problems, the first recommendation will be, "re-install Mac OS X and all your Applications."
When I got my SSD, the outside of the box said, " Cloning Utilities included."  Inside the box, the readme said, "NO Cloning Utilities included, and not only that, if you clone onto it, we tear up your warranty." So caution is urged concerning cloning. That also suggests a new Install would be better.

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