I7 17" shuts down and won`t reinstall with original Discs. HD failure?

hi ,,,first time post here .....thanks for any help .
My Macbook Pro 17" 7200 RPM 500 GB laptop is out of commision . I think it was running 10.6.7 but I can`t check anymore
I can`t get it to reinstall and I`ve already erased the HD in an attempt to get it to accept a clean install.
Here`s what I have . S/N C02CW0E9DC7C . Bought it june 2010
Started the curtain drop quitting 6 mos ago .
Apple repair (in Brasil) deemed it bad memory and replaced the memory ... returned it to me with the same problem .
I did the clean install myself at that time ... all good until it started quitting again a month ago.
Things got really bad with quitting and beachballing ...took it to a genius bar in NY ...
Diagnosis "Keys out of order"
They offered to reinstall the software (under applecare) but i decided to do it myself when I got off of the road allowing for a complete backup.
It then got so bad that it wouldn`t even start up ... maybe once in 7 tries I was able to get to my desktop.
I made it through some backing up and set about to do the clean install .....
here`s what happened
Here are the messages I got when I loaded the disc and tried to reinstall
message 1
"the contents of this disc can`t be changed
mac osx couldn`t be installed on this drive"
I clicked on disk repair and got this
message 2
"keys out of order HD could not be repaired
Disk utility can`t repair this disk"
I then erased the HD and tried to install the disc again .
This time it looked good for a minute ... the blue bar on the bottom went from "39 minutes remaining" to 33 minutes or so then quit with ...
message 3
"an error occured while installing Mac osx"
the screen went light blue and I waited a few minutes until the machine shut down by itself
I tried again and ...
message 4
"install failed "(with the yellow warning triangle)
"the installer could not copy the necessary support files
click restart to restart your computer and try again"
So .. I followed the prompt but when I clicked on restart ... the machine did nothing ... the mouse command was ignored.
I had to do a forced shutdown and restart the machine while pressing on the mousepad to get the disc to eject.
Now it powers up with a gray screen and a question mark .
Is it possible to diagnose this as a HD failure ?

Original poster here again ..
In surfing ... I found this comment in another thread ...
Relevent ?
thanks, Paul
Why would I need a new HD when it worked fine one day and the only change was the attempted upgrade?
I am not an expert on this, but used to see a lot of posts about Norton Utilities killing Mac OSX HDs, and, iirc, "keys" was one of the issues. Apparently the directory can be damaged to the degree that it cannot be repaired, effectively rendering the HD useless.

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