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"Is the operating sytem worth backing up right now if it is so screwed up though?"
Possibly
We still need to figure out the health of your drives. What Raid Controller is installed? When you boot is there any option to bring up the controller/array menu to determine the health of the drives?
Can you bring up a command prompt when the system is booted? If not press and hold the "Shift" key while clicking on restart. This will allow you to boot into a trouble shooting mode where you can bring up a command prompt and run scan disk from there.
If scandisk finds any bad sectors then you will need to replace the drive(s)