Target Disk Mode error..?

Let me premise this quiestion by saying I am rather new with macs.. love em so far, but have been rasied on PC's..
anyways, I have an ibook G4 that someone gave to me because it had the flashing question mark on startup, I booted from install disk and ran disk utility to 'repair disk' and it gives me an 'Underlying task reported failure error -9972'..
So there are thousands of pictures I would like to retrieve from this ibook, So Im thinking using my new MacBook and doing a little target disk mode retrieval..
So I connect them together of course, I start the ibook by holding 'T', it goes into target disk mode (see the floating firewire icon).. but my MacBook just spits out this error: the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer..
Any and all help would be awesome! im hoping I can retrieve the data, but does it sound like a lost cause?..

Unfortunately this type of work is not covered by Protection Plan, and the cost is too high for me. The only thing I can do now is Initialize, and lose my files.
But before to do this procedure, I would like try another time the Target Disk Mode: I found this (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2528?viewlocale=en_US) in the Apple Site, perhaps is this the problema I had today?
And what about other type of files migration?

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