TS2094 After resetting the pram, the screen only shows a folder with a question mark inside.  What does this mean?

I followed the initial steps in this post and reset pram.  After restarting, the screen just shows a folder with a question mark.  What does this mean?

Thanks Niel, I tried using Option and nothing happened so I next tried inserting the Leopard disc and rebooting while holding C.  Nothing happened until the disc was ejected and then the folder with question mark reappeared.  I inserted the disc again and at this point and it booted OSX.  I tried to acess disc utility to repair but my harddrive wasn't listed, only the CD drive and the OS disc.  Does this mean I'm lost everything?

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