Extenal Hard Drives and ipods

Hey,
Lately my ibook is not recognizeing my ipod, my wifes ipod or my two external hard drives...the problems started when I was trying to share a external hard drive with a PC (instead of a nice closed mac system). Anyway I get power from my USB and Firewire but they don't come up in finder, or itunes or anything. Everything used to come up fine...help

Generally, it helps to power down and unplug everything from receptacles for ten minutes or so, then one by one power up. Provides a reset.
Also, "What to do if your computer won't recognize a FireWire device" here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338
or, this post by Rod Hagen in this other thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2335366&#2335366
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