Problem with CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner).... Am I screwed?

Hello there, I've been using the Apple Discussion Boards since I bought my Quicksilver G4 to do any and all upgrades. I have not had a single problem with any advice careully taken from these boards until now.
And it's a doosey.
I just made the queen mother of all computer no-no's. Following the footsteps of others on these boards, I downloaded CCC to make a copy of my os onto a new (Internal) drive. I had been getting "Your start-up disk is almost full" messages and decided to replace my drive. Well, the computer froze during the copy and now my boot disk is shown as "not mounted" (In disk utility) and renamed "disk0s9". And yep, you guessed it, I didn't back up my files.
The disk I was copying from was a partition, would that have anything to do with the failure? The disk was the 40GB factory drive split into 4 parts... don't ask why, It seemed like a good idea at the time. To put the icing on the cake, much of the data on the other partitions has vanished as well.
I'm (mostly) prepared to suck this up a loss and hard-learned lesson. Is there any hope of retrieving the data?
What can you guys tell me?
'02 Quicksilver G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

As I mentioned, it is a partition of the old drive that has been "damaged", not the entire drive itself. And I had installed OSX onto one of the undamaged partitions (that's what I'm using now), but what I need is to get my user settings and data. So, Yes the old drive does work, but the partition that had my OS on it is "Not Mounted". Is there something I can do to make it readable without formatting/erasing it?
In disk utility the partition is named "disk0s9" in shadowed type. When you click on it, at the bottom the only specs are 1) the Mount Point which reads "Not mounted" and 2) Capacity, which reads "9.6GB" [and the bytes].
I had already gone through and deleted everything I didn't need in order to make space until I could buy a new drive (actually twice). I even moved many groups of files onto different partitions.
I cannot afford to purchase any software or pay a Mac consultant to Run DiskWarrior or Data Rescue on my drive. That would be nice.
I just tried to verify the disk in Disk utility and got this message:
Verifying volume “disk0s9”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired.
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)
1 volume checked
0 HFS volumes verified
1 volume failed verification
That's jibberish to me....
'02 Quicksilver G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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