Illegal name in verification - drive needs repair, owner needs advice!

Hi,
I have a problem with my ibookG4!!
I am relatively unfamiliar with operating system mechanics and only discovered the disc utility options because of reading similar issues amongst these threads!
I have been running fine until this week, when my clock reset itself to 1989 and now the mozilla firefox keeps freezing on me.
I ran disc utility verification.
it stated:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking multi-linked files.
,0)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
I tried to repair it (using the disc utility), but it stopped before the end. Initially i had a lot of "iTunes / widget user name" disagreements that were simply fixed. The "illegal name" line was in red... meaning that there lies the problem?
I have no idea what that could mean or how to remedy it.
Also, if the start up disc is inserted and i fix it from there... (now please excuse me for sounding dumb) will i lose any of my files from the hard drive (e.g final cut projects)?
Im just not experienced enough to know how to sort this out and its probably really simple!
Any ideas?
Cheers
monster x
(and thanks to cornelius for recommendation to here...)

You shouldn't lose anything with this procedure. 1st insert install disk and let it load. then restart and hold down the c key to run off disk. go through the couple of windows that the disk asks, like language, and you will see at the top of screen, disk utility. choose that and 1st repair permissions. After that then go to repair disk and repair until there are no more errors in red. may or may not need a couple of tries. If all is well then go to preference panel, open startup disk icon, and choose your hard drive as the start up disk, and restart.

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Verifying volume “Aygies Raid”
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Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk2 Aygies Raid
Disk: "Aygies Raid"
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XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
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Old-style plist parser error:
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Old-style plist parser error:
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Illegal name_
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Checking Catalog file.
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Illegal name_
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Maverick922 Before you erase, you might want to try and run fsck first even though it says you are using HFS+
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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Checking Catalog file.
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Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.
When you have finished, reboot and repair permissions from your hard drive.

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