TS2570 Disk no longer recognized in disk utility

Long story.
I updated OS X to Lion 2 weeks ago on my Mid 2009 13" Macbook Pro and everything seemed to be in perfect order. 3 days ago, when I opened the Macbook to check my email, the screen was frozen. No problem right? Just reboot. The only thing on the screen that moved was the mouse pointer. Everything else was frozen, dock, menus, everything. So I had to do a hard reboot using the On/Off button. On reflashing, the system rebooted back into the OS but with stock wallpaper showing on screen and an error message. I couldn't tell you what the message was as it only happened once and I immediatly rebooted again as that is a part of what the error message said to do.
From that point onwards, I never even got the startup chime on reboot and the gray screen with logo and gear was the only thing showing. So I tried to boot into recovery and got the same thing, what I now call the gray screen of death. Everytime I would try to reboot, I would have to shut down the thing with the On/Off button. So after doing some reading on here, I successfully reset the NVRAM and now get the chime on startup...yay! However, I still get the gray screen.
So in order to try something new, I put Lion on a DVD to use Disk Utility to figure out if maybe my hard drive was crapping out as I can't find my old Snow Leopard disk. I successfully booted into the DVD and using Disk Utility was able to see the 120 GB Hitachi HD. So I tried to repair the disk as I figured that was a problem. Well, it seemed to work but for 24 hours straight, the progress bar was frozen at around 25% and nothiong happening. *** Right? I rebooted a few times and tried the Disk Utility but after a few trys, Disk Utility couldn't even see the disk as if there was no HD in the laptop. Okay, so now I figure that for sure it had to be the Hard Drive and it crapped out. So today I went and bought a new Seagate 320 GB 7200 RPM at Best Buy where the guy assured me that the drive would work in the Macbook. I changed it out with no problems and when I rebooted to re-install Lion on the new disk, disk utility still shows that there is no HD in the laptop. I'm frustrated. And to top it all off, I cannot get the DVD Disk out of the drive. Can somebody help me out here as I am at the end of my rope and considering making the Macbook into a MacFrisbee.

Just an update to yesterday. I managed to get the DVD out of the superdrive by shaking it out while ejecting. I put the old HD back in and still no dice with regards to making it show up in Disk Utility. While opened up, everything seemed to be in order with nothing burnt or smelling burnt. All connections seem to be in place. I guess it's off to the repair shop for the laptop.

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