Unrepairable volume

The Dock would freeze up and when I ran disk utility it showed 1 volume could not be repaired. I zeroed out the drive and completely rebuilt Tiger, software updated, etc., etc.
Disk Warrior run(32% out of wack), disk utility run again, and a myriad of file permission wrong after rebuild, which I corrected.
Disk utility still has 1 volume that could not be fixed.
Is it time for a new Hard Drive? This present drive is a replacement from November 2005.

I was looking into replacing it myself with an 120GB Toshiba
From what I have experienced as well as reading on Apple Discussions (and elsewhere) I am always a little wary, and suspicious of Toshiba drives.
If you do end up replacing the drive yourself (rather than a manufacturer's warranty replacement), be sure not to get an SATA drive as they're not compatible.
2.0GHz MacBook, 15" 1.25GHz/12" 1GHz PBs, 2xPPC Mac minis, 12" iBook G4,   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Cube, 2xTAMs, iPod 4G & nano 2G, 1G & 2G iPs, AEBS, AX

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