Can't connect to USB External

I have a newertech miniStack 500gig external hdd. I plug it in to the APE with USB. I see it in OS X10.5 in the finder, I click to connect to it, and nothign happens. It only worked once. Now it doesn't. I tried connecting to it as a registered user, nothing. I try as a guest, nothing. Help ?

I could never get the Airport Disk Utility to work, either.
I've had success at auto-mounting my shared USB disks on an AEBS by first manually mounting the shared disks in the finder, then dragging the disk I want to auto-mount into the Startup pane in the Accounts Preference Pane. When rebooting, the disks will auto-mount if you are automatically connected to your network.

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