Reboot lafter 10.5.8 2@1TB drives - "Filesystem Verify or Repair failed".

BACKGROUND:
Ok so I upgraded (patched) Parallels a couple of days ago, but didn't reboot yet (I was busy). Then I see the auto update showing me 10.5.8 so I grab that and it's sitting there waiting for me to reboot.
I have 4 browsers open (not windows, browsers - firefox, camino, safari & flock) for about a total of 40-50 windows. parallels is open, excel and word are open and so is thunderbird, iPhoto and a few other random things including time machine (once open I tend not to shut them down). So the systems decides it's had enough and crashes hard (to reboot) it looks like it come sup clean except I get a message about one of my 1TB drives is unavailable but mounted so I can recover data.
I tried to run disk utility to get it back online but I get Invalid inode structure, "Filesystem Verify or Repair failed". I reboot, same. I shutdown, power off, the same. I try my 10.5.6 CD, the same.
I reboot again and go into disk utility and I try to repartition one of the failed drives (time machine drive) and that fails but it does mount the drive so I can read it.
I try to repair the other failed drive and in the meantime I get an external 1TB drive to see if I can recover the time machine data to an external location before I try to putz with it again.
QUESTION:
So anyway any ideas how to get these drives to come back up clean? I'm not so concerned with the data as I run multiple copies of the data across a NAS and two of the three drives. fsck is just not getting me ther as I can't reliably get the drives remounted.

Ok I tried to verify the two drives. One failed to umount (that's ok, more later) and the other umounted but failed to verify.
I attached an external 1TB drive. Formatted it and fired up Synk Pro. I dropped all of the directories from the failed disk into Synk and pointed it at the external drive.
I'm going to bed now and expect Synk to have copied my data from the failed drive by morning. If that all goes well then I'll grab another external drive adn see if on reboot the other disk comes up (it's the time machine disk). I'd like to recover all of that and then repartition the drive that is now working (kinda) and put the data back. I'll also grab a copy of DiskWarrior and see if I can get the second drive back online.
More later.

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desioner wrote:
Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup.
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