Problems Booting up - "No smoking symbol"

Hello everyone,
I'm running a 2004 Powerbook G4 512 megs of ram and an 80 gig HD, hopefully I'll be able to explain my problem as clearly as I can.
Months ago, I left to class only to return to a Powerbook that was responding very very sluggish. I heard this internal grinding sound (I think grinding is too harsh of a word, but imagine something spinning and stopping it with your hand, such as those mini handheld fans people bring out during the summer) and none of my applications were running. So I turn off the computer to restart it and the computer does not boot at all. I did not panic, but left the computer off for a couple days and turned it back on and everything booted up propely and everything seemed okay. I repaired the permissions and tried to repair the disk only to run into an error. I decided to boot off the Tiger OSX CD and run disk utility from there. I was able to repair the disk and I thought that was the end of my problem... and it was... for about a month.
The 'grind' and the repeating clicking noise returned. I immediately tried to boot off the CD to run disk utility, only to find that disk utilitiy wasn't picking up my hard drive! I checked the startup disk and only had the two choices of booting off the CD or booting off the network (i think that's what the second choice was, I might be wrong!) but no choice to boot off the HD on the laptop. Worried again, I kept the computer off for a couple more days and booted off the CD only to have disk utility find pickup the hard drive. I ran disk utility and repaired the permissions and disk.
The computer was working fine, although I knew something was obviously wrong with it! I took it to the apple store and told the guy what was happening only to get a mini lecture on why it wouldn't be cost effective for apple to start replacing parts on my computer. Frustrated, I told him that it's not very cost effective for me to purchase a $2200+ computer, the only computer I have in college, to have it break down several times and be told that I needed to wait to have it breakdown once more before anything could be done. I was angry, but of course what he said makes sense.
The computer stopped functioning for a third time. This when the gray screen appears, instead of the apple logo, I got the no-smoking circle-with-a-slash-through-it symbol.
After a couple more tries, the apple symbol came back and it took quite a while to get out of the gray screen and into the blue screen... although once the blue screen came up with the spinning circle beneath it letting the user know something is loading, the circle would go away, and the system would just hang at that blue screen.
Unfortunately, it was finals week for me and the computer broke down the day before I was flying back to Los Angeles.
Call me a fool, but I once again booted off the CD, ran disk utility, and here I am typing out this post on the same laptop.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Is it a failing HD? Wouldn't the HD have croaked already? Anything would help and I'm very sorry for the long post!!!
Thank you for bearing with me.
-Eric
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 512 megs of ram, 80gig HD, completely stock.

Sluggish, grinding, "no smoking" symbol at startup -- you've got a failing hard drive. if you have access to an external drive, get your critical data off now.
What does it say in Disk Utility under SMART status: verified or failing?
I had mine replaced a month ago. It was still working, but the grinding was driving me insane, and of course the day before I took it in, even SMART status said "verified." ON the genisu bar it changed to "failing."
You're on borrowed time. But like a soap opera actress, hard drives can die a quick and painless death, or a long, drawn-out, season-long melodramatic death.
So, in summary back up your data, prrepare to get a new drive.
Let me know if this helped, and what your progress is.
-K

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