Tiger won't start up, no volume to mount to?

Hi everyone,
I was doing some permissions repair and disk cleanup, when my power went out. Now Tiger won't start up! I get a full-screen shell with the following text:
disk0s3: I/O error.
disk0s3: I/O error.
/etc/master.password: Input/output error
disk0s3: I/O error.
-sh: /etc/profile: Input/output error
-sh-2.05b#
If I leave the Mac on, the fans start spinning up slowly and keep building to a roar. I've left it on for about 1 minute, then shut it down.
Starting up by holding the Command key down after the startup ding gets me a screen with a folder icon (?), which proceeds to turn into a smiley face and then the bootup sequence starts. It then goes back to the full-screen shell.
I put in my Tiger (10.4) install disk, and the Disk Utility shows the Hard Drive, but the Macintosh HD volume is greyed out and won't / can't mount, be verified, or repaired.
Trying to install so that I can archive / install yields no HDs that I can install to. Luckily I keep my PC around for just such an occurance
So the question is, what is going on here? Thanks in advance,
-Gary

You are going to have to reformat the drive. If there is a chance of data recovery it would be best if you stop using the drive altogether. Find another Mac with Firewire. Connect the two by Firewire cable. Boot the "bad" computer into Target Disk Mode, then boot the "good" computer normally. The "bad" computer's disk drive should appear on the other computer's Desktop. If the drive is still accessible, then you may be able to recover your data.
When you reformat the drive use the following procedure:
1. Boot from your Tiger DVD. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.

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