USB/firewire board  killed Firewire

I had an Adaptec usb2.0/firewire board which worked fine for several years, I had to give up sleep mode but not a big deal. I started having problems with usb camera file transfers. They would start and then hang. I bought an IOgear board pci board and I got my sleep back and usb works great, but now my firewire has headed south. My Fantom drive is not recognized at all and my Granite Digital which has 3 partions usually only shows 1 or 2 partions. when I click on a partion the finer stalls and I have to reboot. When I boot in safe mode I see the drives and things seem to be normal. I have zapped the pram and reset the firmware. I have unplugged the machine and unhooked all externals. So far nohting has worked. I am not sure what to do next. Any ideas would be appreiated.
G4 DP450   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Powerlogix DP1.6 CPU 4 internal SATA HDs on seritek board IOgear USB2/firewire 400 board 1.7gig ra

Am I to assume that you have installed no drivers for either/any of your PCI cards? IOGear, Seritek, Adaptec, etc.?
If your machine worked as expected in safe mode, but, returned to troubled status afterwards, the problem is probably either, 1- a conflict with third party drivers (non-Apple, non-OS X native), or, 2- damaged software or directory damage.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392
You can start by looking in your System Preferences/Accounts/Login items.
Make a note of all items that are selected, then, deselect all. Check your system. If performance has returned, you will then have to select, one by one, the log in items, testing each new addition, until the conflict returns. You can then remove the conflicting item.
If this doesn't result in a satisfactory result, more troubleshooting will be necessary.
One other check, would be to create a new user account. If the problem is also present in the other user account, then software corruption may be the fault, and a system reinstall could be necessary to repair the problem.
G4AGP(450)Sawtooth, 2ghz PowerLogix, 2gbRAM, 300gbSATA+160gbATA, ATI Radeon 9800   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Pioneer DVR-109, ExtHD 160gb x2, 23"Cinema Display, Ratoc USB2.0, Nikon Coolscan

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