Serious trouble..

I hope you can help me, you're kinda my last hope..
A couple of nights ago my macbook (running tiger) froze, I restarted by holding down the on/off button for a few seconds.. I went to sleep and the next morning the screen still showed the grey background with a black apple.. Start up screen..
Now i tried restarting, didn't work, I tried starting in safe mode; no luck.. I tried booting off of the install disk and only got a screen telling me I need to restart.. I've tried everything I even took the hard drive out of my macbook, connected it to a pc and saved my pictures and such, erased the disk with MacDrive and now my MacBook doesn't find the hard drive..
I can't get past the startup screen or the screen telling me to reboot...
I've also tried entering single user-mode but am unable to write anything.
I'm at the end of my rope here.. Can anyone figure out what to do???
My MacBook is only a year old but the warranty has expired

If you boot from the OS X Installer Disc and you get a kernel panic it means there's a serious hardware failure. It could be the hard drive, memory, or motherboard.
You cannot format the drive in a PC and expect it to work on the Mac. MacDrive cannot partition the drive properly. You would be better off using another Intel Mac to repartition and format the drive. If you are able to do so then at least you will eliminate the drive as the problem and can reinstall it in the computer.
If you have the original software discs that came with the computer try booting from Installer Disc One and after the chime press and hold down the "D" key until the diagnostics screen appears. Run the extended diagnostics several times. Note down any error messages you may receive.

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drwxrwxr-x+ 121 root admin 4114 Oct 31 09:04 Applications
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 10240 Oct 31 13:24 Desktop DB
0: user:etnier allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 10850 Oct 30 05:28 Desktop DF
0: user:etnier allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxr-t+ 58 root admin 1972 Oct 29 18:30 Library
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 Oct 29 11:34 Network
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxrwx+ 4 root admin 136 Oct 29 11:03 System
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drwxr-xr-x+ 6 root admin 204 Oct 29 15:44 Users
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
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0: user:etnier allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
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0: user:etnier allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Nov 1 08:50 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 Oct 29 11:05 private
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x@ 66 root wheel 2244 Oct 29 11:02 sbin
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lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Oct 29 10:59 tmp -> private/tmp
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drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 374 Oct 29 12:23 usr
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lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Oct 29 10:59 var -> private/var
0: user:etnier allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
Macintosh:/ etnier$
Macintosh:/ etnier$ cd /Volumes
Macintosh:Volumes etnier$ ls -le
total 8
drwxrwxrwx+ 14 root admin 544 Oct 31 08:45 BAKS
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,addsubdirectory,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x@ 38 etnier etnier 1360 Nov 1 03:39 Files
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drwxrwxrwx@ 58 etnier etnier 2040 Oct 29 18:30 Junk 1
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,addsubdirectory,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxrwx@ 52 etnier etnier 1836 Oct 30 09:02 Junk 2
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,addsubdirectory,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxrwx@ 31 etnier etnier 1122 Oct 31 09:31 Junk 3
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drwxrwxrwx@ 93 etnier etnier 3230 Oct 31 09:03 Junk 4
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drwxrwxrwx@ 20 etnier etnier 748 Oct 31 09:03 Junk 5
0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,addsubdirectory,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxrwx@ 83 etnier etnier 2890 Oct 31 09:03 Junk 6
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0: user:etnier allow list,addfile,addsubdirectory,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
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Macintosh:Volumes etnier$

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