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OK, here goes...
This started this morning. I came into my office and found that my G5 had finished burning the DVD I had started last night before bed (some avi's in Toast, for what it's worth). Removed the DVD, shut down Toast and tried to drag the avi's to the trash. Instead of behaving normally, this (just to be clear, I mean dragging the avi's to the trash) restarted the dock and "disappeared" any open folders on the right side of the dock (as well as the open folder with the avi's on the desktop) All the folders opened back up on the desktop in a few seconds. I was able to send the other folders back to the dock, but any effort to put the avi's in the trash (one at a time or together, by dragging or right-clicking for the menu) repeated the same scenario.
Then tried to restart, which went normally until the blue bar (in the "Starting OSX window") reached the far right side. At this point, it just hung (although the blue bar still seemed to be "moving"). Tried several more times, same thing.
Then I tried resetting the SMU (unplugged it for half an hour. Didn't try the SMU reset button, as I believed that to be redundant, correct?) -- Nothing. Reset the PRAM -- Nothing.
I then tried an "Archive and Install" from my Tiger DVD. After it does it's thing (well, almost does it's thing - it doesn't finish), it has a "There were errors installing the software" message at the top of the installer window. So again, no luck.
Then I moved on to Disk Utilities and tried a Repair DisK. After writing "Overlapped Extent Allocation" (with a parenthetical file reference) about a thousand times, and "checking multi-linked files", as well as "checking catalog hierarchy" it quickly scrolls to a stop, showing "Volume Bit Map needs minor repair," "Invalid volume free block count," then "Volume Header needs minor repair," followed by 'repairing volume" and "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired." Finally, it says "Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit" (as well as some messages about "the (HFS) volume could not be repaired because of an error." The First Aid Failed window says that Disk Utility stopped repairing Macintosh HD because "the underlying task reported failure on exit." And that's all I could think to try.
So, any ideas on how to proceed?
I'll point out, just in case, that this was the original, pre-installed hard drive. I have another internal in there, as well as five externals.
Hoping someone can help, but dreading what I anticipate hearing.
TIA,
Warren

Karl,
This is just a note to say thanks for your help. I don't know if you'll read this, but I thought it would only be polite to make the effort.
In case you're interested, the drive is back up and working. Something you mentioned about using Tech Tool Pro (which I do have) to recover data, sparked a thought about another path to try before giving up and starting over with a clean install.
I went out and picked up a copy of DiskWarrior, and that did the trick. It was able to rebuild the directory, and from there I was able to successfully do an "Archive and Install" from my Tiger DVD. It seems most of the damage to the OS was minor, and it was just one or two of the overlapped files that were the culprits. There are a few minor things I'm still fixing: a few programs that had to be reinstalled, some drivers that needed replacing, fixing the settings for the network and one or two other minor things. However, weighing that against the idea of having to do everything over from scratch makes me feel like I got off very lightly indeed.
There are also a few other benefits that I've accrued: A new, bigger hard drive to use as my startup disc, so I don't have to struggle for space with the old 150GB one; a copy of DiskWarrior (an invaluable program, if there ever was one); and a renewed sense of urgency when it comes to maintaining my Macs. It's all to easy to become complacent when you're using a machine as stable as a Mac. And, also, a great reminder of how insidious the "creeping OS damage" can be. All-in-all,,,
So thanks again for your efforts. This wouldn't have had as happy an ending without your help. I hope you see this.
-W

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