Huge problem! Harddrive does not work anymore

Hi,
I hope someone can help me. I wanted to start my Macbook this morning, but it does not start anymore. I looked in the manual and tried to start it from the Macbook-CD and open the harddrive programm, but I cannot repair the harddrive it says, cause there were "wrong packages".
My Macbook is just a bit older than a year, did I really crush my harddrive? (and if yes, how?!)
I also cannot install MAC OS X for another time, cause my harddrive cannot be selected, so I have no target where to install OS X.
What did I do wrong and what can I do so I can start my Macbook again?

I just returned from the apple store and yes I needed a new hard drive. I also purchased this in June of 2006 so my warranty had expired. BUt I purchased it with a gold card which gives me an extended warranty. So at least they will pay for the new drive. But now I have a great deal of work to restore my last backup which is 10 days old. I have lost 10 days of important email, all the work I did and all the photos of the conference I went to. But at least I did a backup before I left town. And I was please with the Genius Bar guy who helped me figure out what to do in what order to restore what I need.
BUt I have been working on computers since the first IBM pc and this is only the second time I had a hard drive failure. And that first failure was a backup drive so it didn't really matter. THis one does matter and I don't like the fact that these are failing so quickly. So the lesson is backup all the time. Next time I travel I will take a backup hard drive with me too.

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