External FW System drives. 10.4.11 starts and runs. 10.5.8 won't

Hello, and thanks in advance for your time. I've never posted in this forum, but am a regular contributor on the Logic Pro forum.
I've had TIger running on my G5 off an external boot drive to use Logic Pro 8 trouble free for a long time. I cloned the drive, made sure the clone booted and updated the clone to 10.5.8 so I could run Logic 9. This worked great for about 4 months. One day Logic crashed during a routine operation that I use daily without incident. The computer froze. I could not force quit out of Logic. When I went to the hidden dock, it opened but did not function or close again. I shut down with the power switch. I could not get OS 10.5.8 to start up again. It will still startup fine in 10.4.11 on the original external drive that I cloned.
I have tried:
Running disk utility to check the drive. It passes.
Launching from the install disk and repairing permissions on the 10.5.8 drive. It repairs them and finds no issues when re-checked.
Launching the install disk and restoring the startup from time machine.
Re-installing 10.5 on the same drive as the update.
Re-cloning and re-updating to a different external drive.
Swapping cables and firewire ports.
Re-formatting and doing a fresh install of 10.5 on another drive.
Zapped the PRAM.
Started in safe mode and reset the password.
And more stuff that I can't recall at the moment but will remember if anyone suggests a possible solution that I have already tried.
Through all this, I can still start up off the 10.4.11 drive on the same firewire ports.
I also took the 10.5.8 hard drives home and was able to boot my old mdd G4 off of each of them with no problem.
I am quite stumped as to why the same FW buss can boot up in Tiger, but not in Leopard, especially since it worked fine at first.
Any Suggestions?

The good news is that I've gotten to the source of the
problem. It got to the point where I could not boot in Tiger either.
This happened after accessing the second internal drive in the G5. I
opened the box, disconnected the drive and all is well. Leopard works,
Logic 9 works, the order of the universe is restored.....
The bad news is that because the first symptom of this problem was the
loss of Leopard and Time Machine, the most recent back-up I have of my
Logic songs that I save on this drive is from 9/24/10. If I can't get
at these files I'll be re-doing many hours of work. The drive
partitions mount OK. I can navigate through the first 2 levels of
folders but cannot display the contents of the 3rd level. Finder
freezes when I try. I've rebuilt the directories with Disk Warrior
with no benefit.
Do you have any tips on file recovery? I was thinking I'd start with
putting the drive in an external enclosure to eliminate the G5's
internal wiring as a possibility. Beyond that, I'm clueless. Any leads
would be very much appreciated.

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