My Intel iMac recognizes DVD as hard drive, how can I find my hard drive?

I was listening to iTunes one morning, song stopped randomly and iTunes froze (Pinwheel). I shut down and when I restarted I kept getting the image of a question mark on a folder, I reset the pram as a way to allow me to eject a DVD I had. I put in Snow Leopard so I could get to Disk Utility, but the Disk Utility recognizes the original DVD as the Hard Drive. Any ideas?

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