Strange Menus and Currupt File Systems? Help!

I recently replaced my ibook's HD with a new one, every thing has been fine until just recently. Mysteriously on my control click menus and other pop up windows like save and open, all system text has turned into code. use the following url for an example http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/whatapileof/menu.jpg . The text is now N21 and things like that. Any ideas? When i tried to do a HD repair in disc utility, the permissions are fine but when i repair the disc it fails each time. I have tried to reinstall the OS but that also fails. I am guessing that the menu text and this repair issue are hand-in-hand. Only thing i can think of is doing a re-format. There’s no other issues that i can spot and the problem is bearable. Im used to doing reformats with windows. never thought i would have to with OSX though. Any ideas how to avoid?? Cheers.
(This message was previously in the ibook section of the discussion, no one could really help so i have moved it to a more viewed section. Dan)

As the error is on the system drive i have used the install dvd of 10.4 and used disc utility from that menu to repair the disc. The only error message displayed says only "disc unable to be repaired" and when you re-install the OS without reformatting it states "Mac OS X cannot be installed." and makes you restart. I havnt tried fsck. Do you recommend still trying it? can you remind me how to get to the command line whilst OS X is booting up. I haven’t moded the OS nor installed any haxies. I didn't notice any changes until a few days after i installed the last peace of software which i believe was the new version of firefox and i cant think of a time where the computer had incorrectly shut down or malfunctioned. Might as well face it, i'm going to have to re-format and reinstall.
Thanks for the help

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