No Destination Volumes appear

I have to re-install, but first I ran Disk Utility to repair anything that needed fixing. It reported these errors: "Invalid B-tree node size," volume check failed," and "The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)," none of which it could repair. So I just tried to re-install and when it gets to the "Select a Destination" window, nothing appears. What do I do?

Hi, clskgd.
Either:
• The directory must be repaired before you reinstall the system. Or...
• You need to backup whatever you can, erase the drive, and reinstall from scratch.
That no destination volumes can be seen (and I presume the only one that should be seen is Macintosh HD in your PowerBook) indicates the drive is seriously corrupted, perhaps even damaged.
See the "Disk Utility cannot repair the disk" section of my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ.
Good luck!
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