Uh-oh... have I lost the lot? eMac won't boot up... Scared!

Hi guys, little bit scared here, I'm worried I've lost everything on my eMac... I'll tell you what's happened...
Just woke it from sleep to find that it wasnt displaying a mouse pointer. So, I shut down using the power button at the side.
Press the power button again to wake it up, goes into a plain grey screen - no apple, no spinning status circle.
This screen stays for a while but nothing happens.
So I shut down again using the power button.
Tried to start up again, same plain grey screen. I give it a little longer this time, and eventually I get a little blue folder with a flashing question mark (?) and square smiling face macintosh logo.
OK, so now I'm really worried. Have I lost everything? Whats happening? How do I turn it off from this screen? I'm currently using my housemate's laptop and will be online for a while so any help people can give ASAP, well you'd rank in my list of favourite people ever really. I'm very confused! Help! Please!

Gareth,
Some links to back up Matt's advice:
Using Disk Utility and fsck
If Disk Utility reports errors but can't repair them, you'll need a third-party utility:
DiskWarrior
If you have access to another Mac, you can try booting the problem Mac in Firewire Target Disk Mode to recover your files.
If nothing else is working, you can resort to an Archive and Install. Don't try this if Disk Utility is reporting unrepairable drive errors --- trying to put a new OS on a suspect hard drive is asking for more trouble. Zeroing the hard drive from the Installer's Disk Utility and reinstalling everything from scratch would map out bad disk sectors but wipes out any data you don't have backup up, so try Disk Utility and if needed Disk Warrior first.

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