Ready for the knackers yard?

My old faithful iMac is suddenly crawling along at 1/100 th normal speed. No new software or anything obvious to me. So I
tried to run first aid on disk utility-this wouldn't run (I run this regularly)
tired disk utility on restore disk-wouldn't run
ran an old hardware test that happened to be hanging aroung (iMac 1.2) all OK
booted up in 9.2 to run first aid there, didn't work, got "unable to read from disk"
I then couldn't find 10.4 to reboot from so I used install disk
Do I run fsck from single user or is this just for start up problems?
Do I rebuild using Disk Warrior? I have DW 2.1, is this still good?
Any other suggestions or comments?
Thanks in advance people!

Martin,
According to Alsoft: In order to run DiskWarrior while started from Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) you will need to use DiskWarrior version 3.0.3. Earlier versions of DiskWarrior, while not compatible with Tiger, will not harm your disk. Attempting to rebuild a disk with DiskWarrior 3.0.2 or earlier, while started from Tiger, will result in an error stating that a "Mac OS Services" failure occurred.
Attempting to rebuild a Tiger disk while started from a DiskWarrior 3.0.2 CD can also result in an error message stating that "This disk appears to have a newer version of the Mac OS disk format than this version of DiskWarrior." When started from earlier versions of the DiskWarrior CD, DiskWarrior may simply indicate that the disk cannot be repaired. In all cases, DiskWarrior 3.0.2 and earlier, will not harm your disk.I would suggest that you update your version of DiskWarrior before throwing in the towel on a Diskwarrior repair.
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