Working mac is continious bleeping

Since a week or 3 my Imac is bleeping whenever the harddisk is put to work. Before this it was impossible to make a time machine copy, it would hang at a certain point. I recently did a disk utility scan which could not be finished (aborted by the system) as it was saying (translated from Dutch):
"Volume-information being checked
Wrong amount of free blocks on this volume
(Has to be 38684126 in stead of 38684119)
The volume 'Macintosh HD' is damaged and need to be repaired.
Error: this disk needs to be repaired. Restart system with another disk (like Mac OS X-installdisk) and use disk utility to repair this disk."
So I put the installdisk 1 in, but the Imac spits it out, refuses to start up in harddisk repair mode or any other mode at all. It just spits it out and starts as usual. Install disk 2 it doesnt spit out, but I can only open a read me file. Like said, the Imac works fine, except that it is guided by literaly hundreds of beeps in high and low, short and long. I feel like being at a supermarket having my items scanned. That is what it sounds like. It is quite vocal but annoying and seem to multiply every day. In the beginning it only did at start up just a few beeps, then it got more, and now it beeps also in sleep mode.
I cannot do a disk repair, also not with the latest OS X update (snowleopard, since Lion is not working on my 1GB drive). I do notice though that the difference in this error code is getting bigger, it used to be just one block difference, now it is 7.
Also I took the memory modules out yesterday and put them back in, as I heard this can also help get rid of the beeps. It did not solve anything at all.
I can't find anything on this problem on internet, because all beep related topics are about the error codes for the RAM drives. These are not the same sounds.
Another attempt was to install the cms program to avoid overheating fans. Also no improvement.
I hope anyone can help me.... I am not sure if my computer details will be shown here automaticaly but it is a early 2006 20" Intel Imac.
Thank you for your help, and please do not ask me too much computer language. I am not a geek, I know the basics but if I knew more I wouldn't need help fixing this ;-)

So I reinstalled Snowleopard recently (I cant run Lion as I don't have 2G ram) and the HD worked without problems according to the disk utility hardware test and for a while it helped. But not very late the bleeping came back. Followed by freezing, and loosing network when the Imac turned in sleeping mode.
Now this week it became worse, Firefox didnt work anymore. Yesterday everything frooze, closed programs stayed open but appeared closed in my dock. My HD drive was no more available. I did not exist anymore as a user nor administrator.
I tried to format my Imac but it could not find the HD drive, and the OS could not be installed as there was no source anailable. Also could not perform hardware test. After some trying I managed to open the Imac again, and could save some recent files. Also a hardware test, telling me there is a sibling link problem. I did the format now possible and the computer is completely clean, but still with some beeps. My problem now is that I cant connect to the internet via my airport express. My MacBook and Ipad work fine with the airport, which works perfectly, but my Imac cant find the Airport Express, nor does it connect via ethernet plug. I think there is a problem here with the airport card, since I can no way connect to the internet now, and also not to my MacBook via Airport. it sees my working internet connection once in a while, but the login 'times out'.
My question is how can I fix this problem? Or do I need to buy a new airport card? I think recent problems also were caused by network connections/airport card.
Maybe a long story. But i thought it may be helpfull to others one time encountering the same bleeps...

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