Virus or ? on my Pismo G3 Powerbook

I'm running OS 10.3.9 on my G3 Firewire Powerbook (Pismo?). I'm connected to the internet through a router connected to my satellite modem. About a week ago, my disk started spinning for apparently no reason and performance slowed noticably. This kept up for quite a while. I assumed this was a regularly scheduled virus scan, so I didn't pay much attention. After problems developed, I checked and noticed that the disk activity was not happening on the day the scan was scheduled.
I seem to have developed multiple problems since then:
my OS 9 Partition won't mount, either automatically on start-up, or from Apple's Disk Utility. In Disk Utility the partition is greyed out. Selecting it and choosing "mount" has no effect. running "repair" on it says it's OK.
Using Disk Utility to repair disk permissions on my OS 10.3.9 partition gets an error message saying there are no valid packages to repair.
My Norton Personal Firewall was disabled during the initial event (it intereferes with some functions when on the internet through my satellite broadband providor, so I have to disable it at times). Now, it won't let me re-enable it. Error message when launching: "Could not communication [sic] with extension. Personal Firewall Extension not running and could not be found..."
DiskWarrior won't run even when I try to launch it from the CD.
I tried reinstalling both OS 10.3 and OS 10.3.5 in each case from the original CDs and got an error message "unable to install bundled software" (or something to that effect).
I'm running a scan with Norton antivirus now, but it takes a while. I don't have the results yet.
Any thoughts?

I Used to have a hardware disk test, but can't locate it right now (probably runs on an older system version).
Virus scan didn't turn up anything.
Hard disk is only a couple of years old. I replaced the original internal HD with a 40 GB one. It is a Laptop, so it gets moved around a bit more than a desktop system, but I'm pretty carefull about shutting down or at least putting disk to sleep first. It's also not used much for travel... spends most of its time safely on my desk.
What had me worried was that Norton Firewall is disabled. I heard a rumor somewhere that some Windows/PC "mal-ware" targets Norton and disables it. Don't know if that's true or not, and I've never heard of that on the Mac, but it does have me wondering.

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