Need to reformat my HD and have few q's

Hi !
I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro. 500 gb ..recently updated to Mavericks.
In the past I had a problem with what I THINK were kernel panics (the white screen of death, etc)...came on here and found my way out of that and was able to get up and running with no future noticeable problems.
Lately, I've noticed the computer is running more and more sluggish. Loading my photos in iPhoto takes quite a bit of time, and I dread opening iMovie. Sometimes, other things lag behind as well, but those are the "heaviest" things I do so I thought I would mention them.
I decided to run the Disk Utility and tried to Verify permissions. I got a message "Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD. The disk needs to be repaired using Recovery HD.....etc."
I attempted to follow the instructions to Repair as suggested...and got the following message:
"Disk Utility stopped repairing Macintosh HD. DU can't repair the disk. Back up as many files as possible, reformat the dis and restore your backed-up files".
(interestingly, since I did that, I have been unable to print to my printer...says something about permissions - but I'm terrified to even TRY to fix it)
SOOOOO....now I'm nervous. I have about 15,000 photos of my kiddies and video clips....these are the 2 things I don't want to lose. Of course, I want to save most of what I have, but I am prioritizing.
I have been using Time Machine on my Time Capsule regularly.
I also have an external 500 GB hard drive...so I formatted it (found directions here) and so far I have gone to my "home" folder and dragged "iphoto library" icon to the disk. and also dragged the "itunes library" to it as well. Next I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to drag over to ensure my events/projects are not lost....Any help there ?
NOW my big question: Assuming I can figure out the reformatting and get that done - HOW do I know if I should try to Restore from a previous TM backup or do a clean install and just drag over my important files. I have heard that if the problem has been copied to my TM I will have the same problems. Any way to know that ? Or suggestions?
Your help is SO greatly appreciated....I've been delaying this for a few days but it obviously must be done and I don't want to wait just in case it's my HD.

chrstene96 wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. I've never made a clone copy before, but I imagine I can read up and figure it out (or come back for help)....
You'll need to buy the software, but IMO, it's worth having both a TM Backup and a Clone.
Is my EHD big enough to make a clone on it?
If the EHD is larger than the space used on your Mac, yes.
secondly, if I make the clone and use it to transfer the data, is that considered a "clean" install, VS doing it from the time machine? Or will it still be vulnerable to the same problems i'm having now?
It will be the same if you transfer data (during Install OS X Mavericks from Recovery) from the clone or from Time Machine. You don't need to clone, but since you are manually dragging files to your EHD, it's worth the cost to have Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper do the backup of everything to the EHD.
Clean Install will reinstall fresh from Apple's server OS X Mavericks. When you transfer data (either from TC or Clone), only your data and settings are transferred (so if you have a damaged personal file, it will still be damaged after the clean install)

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