14'' 1.33 ghz ibook won't load my external drives

So i traded my old g4 mini today for a 14'' ibook 1.33 768 ram, and i have tried 4 different external drives of mine and it will not reconize them. They are formated for a mac and all work on my other new mac mini. Ive tried repairing the hd on the ibook and permissions. So all my drives work perfect but the usb ports dont seem to, i even tried a wireless mouse in one of them and it didn't work ether?
I'm lost.
I'm running tiger.

You may have a point there with the format of my drives, if i recall i did format them on my intel mac, so that could be a cuase too.
And i'll give those browsers a try, i just use firefox now, since safari is alot slower running then fox on my ibook and even on my intel mac. Maybe i'll try the beta version.
Also for some reason on my ibook that i just put leopard on, when i go to partion my drives it doesn't seem to have that feature on the ibook, but i can on my mini with leopard. Weird?
And on my mini in disk utility it doesnt have the burn option and mounting option at the top of the page, i have to right click on the img to burn it, but yet on the ibook i have those opitions at the top of the disk utility window.
Also strange?

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