Lost my USB connections after 10.4.11 upgrade

Quite frustrating this. When I went through the 10.4.9 to .10 I lost the ability to access my external HD for some reason. Through these very useful discussions I got that back by using Pacifist and something else I can't remember - but pretty much by reinstalling the drivers from .9
I should have figured something would go wrong with the recent upgrade to .11, but it's worse this time. Now I can't access my printer or my scanner or my external HD. At first I thought my USB hub (Belkin 7-way) was playing up, but I don't think so now - it loads memory sticks across each port ok.
I've tried resetting with just the keyboard, mouse and printer plugged in, but no joy. Same with scanner. Still no luck with alternative leads.
On System Profiler I can see the printer and scanners connected, but however I try to get them to do anything, I get messages saying they're not connected.
Any help much appreciated!

Welcome to Discussions, habcrew!
If I understand correctly, you're booting your iMac in Tiger from the external (Seagate) HD using Firewire, not USB.
If that is correct, how was OS X Tiger installed onto the external HD? (If your issue involves Leopard, I'm not yet using it, therefore this entire post might not apply.)
It would have have been necessary to have cloned ("restored" via Disk Utility located on the original Install DVD, while booted from the Install DVD) (or cloned via SuperDuper, CCC, or some other) OS X from the iMac's internal HD onto the external HD. The external Seagate should have first been formatted by Disk Utility located either on the iMac or on the Install DVD. Use "Options" button on Disk Utility's "Erase" panel to zero the Seagate prior to format would be best.
Performing all subsequent Software Updates upon the cloned OS X will have to be done while the iMac is booted from the Seagate. Or optionally, the cloning of the entire iMac internal HD could be repeated at will at any time after updated, or could be incrementally updated from the internal by using other than Disk Utility (such as above mentioned SuperDuper or CCC).
HTH. Never having used Boot Camp, I'm sorry to say I don't know what to say about that part of the issue.
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