I did find a program called Mini tool data recovery. Oddly enough, even though disk utility said that my drive was unfixable, the program, while scanning for files, somehow fixed the drive and it suddenly popped up on my desktop just as good as ever. I don't know whether the program would have saved my files, as I never finished it, nor did I pay 75 for it, as I wanted to wait to see how it did before I bought it. I will, however, take your advice for the future. In the past, I have been charged $300 for data recovery and I don't want to ever have to do it again.
Much appreciated advice.
Sean O'Brien