As of yesterday, my external devices diappeared from thesideboard of my just over 3-month-old desktop iMAC

I first noticed the probkem when  my camera did not appear. Today it was my thumb drive. I have already tried  inserting the cables into different USB slots, but it did not  resolve the problem. I also tried attaching the thumb drive to my old iMac (which currently is in the throes of death and forced me to buy the new iMac.)  The old  Mac still has Tiger  as its OS. so the desktop display looks different than Moutain Lion's (e.g., no sideboard menu). Also, however, the graphic card (on my old Mac) is almost dead, making it difficult to  see colors of images accurately or read text on the screen.
But what I could see, was that although the devices do not show up on the  sideboard,  the icon is visible on both desktops, and on  my new Mac, if clicked,  it opens with what looks like a mini-sized collection of folders, which open to  thumbnail shots of various  images inside each of them.
I have forgotten how I got there yesterday, but it may have been by running a search for my thumb drive, which revealed the information for the  drive under the sideboard seach information —  as well as a folder at the bottom of thst  "screen." Clicking on that enabled me to open the files I needed . . . but only in preview mode.
I've probably  overlooked  infirormation you neen to help me straighten things out and will be glad to answer them, but unfortunately I have to leave for a funeral in the next county in a few minutes; but will respond as soon as I get back.
Also just noticed thast  my OS is now 10.8.3 (not 10.4.9), but was unable to esit it (below).

Edit your computer information in your profile (click on your name).  In any case, this would be best posted on the 10.8 forum since my experience with 10.8 is seeing a computer through an Apple Store window running it.  I'll ask this topic be moved.

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