"invalid content in journal" - please help!

I was trying to install a USB wi-fi dongle. While doing this, I got spinning wheel and eventually I restarted from power button as couldn't even force quit.
Then Mac wouldn't start up.
I ran disk repair from install disk. It said all was OK, but when I ran verify disk is said "invalid content in journal". Ran repair again, said it was OK, but verify gave same response.
I tried adding code in Terminal as per another post on here
/System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util -N /dev/IDENTIFIER
but got message about no such disk.
Any ideas? I now can't start my laptop!
I'm running 10.6.4 on a 2009 MacBook Pro 13in.
Please help!

Check out this thread:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059072
There are a few suggestions there, including Alsoft's DiskWarrior, which is a great thing to have around for emergencies like this.

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