I have a clamshell last upgraded to Panther-I "lost" ,disk need reload

I have a graphite that I was about to put Tiger on. A pal tweaked it to accept my OSX10.4 already.
A bad break up included the X taking all my original install disks to various systems and programs...even mac (he is anti mac...so you can guess why he took them out of my cd file case).
As luck would have it , I had a serious system failure due to hi house temp (was in in AZ and my fusebox was out. The poor fish boiled. It was still 107 in the office when I came home).
It is physically recovered with the swollen battery replaced. I can get it running to a point but it needs to have an OS reinstalled.
Least has interactive screens instead of white screen of death or sad mac.
The problem...I had been up all night finishing teh sounbdtrack to a 60 minute animated feature in progress. Months of work...
not to mention children's photos. I save to an external once a day before bed. But I was out during the heat wave (having 2 broken  teeth pulled- was a while)
How am I going to be able to install and archive? I have a disc with 10.1  that was part of my other ibook and it has the liscence to both machines written on the cover. But you have to archive with disk of last OS used to save the data in order to retrieve any salvageable data...right? Do I have to buy Panther all over again and not on sale (last disk was part of a 79 dollar upgrade)?!
I don't know many Macophiles personal to borrow the disc from long enough. The Mac store in Mesa AZ  didnt even have a full disk for panther. They were able to look around with a boot copy, but not open any major files or mirror save the drive without a full OS.
I finally have the money to do so.... but I want to be sure before buying Panther new in the box. I know the data could be corrupted but if I can save half  of it.....
that is months of work and of my children's lives.
A retrieval agency would have to install an os ... so I have just as much chance to get the data. Or at least get the data where a retrival team could reach it.
any thoughts or similar events with positive results in a fix?

I'd ask the store in Mesa to copy the animation and your photos onto an external drive and then burn them to a CD for your safe keeping, as they seemed able to access your data when you were there last.
As secondhand Panther or Tiger OS's are expensive you could first try to boot in Safemode to see if that fixes any directory problems.
Starting up in Safe Mode
If heat has caused the problem then no software new or used is going fix failed hardware components so don't rush into new disks before you know your hardware is OK.
It would be better to first run the Apple Hardware test CD if you have it, to see if your disk and logic board are OK. Running the extended test is preferred.
If you don't have  a copy, maybe the store has one they could loan you, or you could possible burn your own from this Apple download site, depending on your model.
Your early model clamshell graphite may fit the very first one for the iBook, but I am not sure which iBook you have exactly.
http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html

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