Disappearing hard drive....but it's still there!

Hi all,
I've got a weird bug on my Mirrored Doors G4 since installing the latest security updated (20th April, 2007-2004).
Although I can still access my applications, home folder, the mac appears to work normally etc...I can't access the Mac System drive directly - it's gone from the side menu and from the desktop!
Bizarrely enough, I can get to it from disk utility - in location, there's just a "/" (I don't know if this is normal, or if it should have a /volumes/system there instead). Clicking on this brings up the drive contents as normal.
I've tried - repairing permissions, zapping P-Ram, starting from system CD and repairing disk, I'm now in the process of downloading the combined update and will try re-installing manually.
Just wondered if anyone had come across this bug before, and if so if you'd managed to resolve it? Nothing seems to have changed functionally on the mac, it's just a bit annoying that's all!
Thanks for any help received.

yes - If you turn these on and off, the other 3 internal drives (2 of which are the same physical drive as the system drive) disappear and come back fine.
A couple of other points - using the combi updater of 10.4.9 doesn't fix it (and now I can't actually apply the latest security update - I'm assuming that's because it's incorporated into the combi updater?). Also, I first noticed it had disappeared after i'd seen a little "finder restart" (ie the header bar along the top of the screen disappeared for a sec and the finder window that was open at the time shut).
Looking now at system profiler, this can see it fine with all the usual details - mount point again given just as "/" that's correct isn't it?
I'd also been getting "disk nearly full" errors - although that's not the case now, and wasn't whilst installing the combi update.
Thanks again!

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