Leopard can't find startup disk, or HD

Hi,
My MacBook (installed Leopard on it about a month ago) hung last night as I was using Firefox, so I powered down and then restarted. A folder with flashing ? icon showed up, so I searched the forums and found some other people who had had the same issue, and tried the suggestions of booting in single-user mode (no luck) and also resetting the PRAM (no luck either).
I then inserted the install disk, and from the Install screen tried to repair my disk using Disk Utility. Unfortunately my HD is not being recognized, so there's no way for me to repair it. Also, when I tried to just reinstall Leopard, the install disc does not recognize any place on my machine where it can be installed-apparently my HD is invisible/missing there as well.
Any ideas? Also, I cannot figure out how to get the install disk out!
Thanks

your hard drive seems to be completely hosed and needs to be replaced. to eject the install disk restart and hold option at the chime. at the startup manager screen press "eject".

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