External HD does not appear in Mac HD

I have a 2 TB Western Digital External  Storage Drive for Mac, which I used to back up some data, attached to my G3 (upgraded processor to G4 Sonnet) B/W desktop.  The drive (My Book) and a separate disk documentation (WD SmartWare) appears on the computer's desktop.   The My Book  does not appear as a device when I view the contents of the system HD.  The SmartWare Disk does appear as a device on the HD.  I can access the drive and the contents and even eject the Drive.  But since it does not appear as a device when I bring up the contents  of the System drive, I can no longer save any data to the external drive.  Since I can access the contents of the drive, it did initially work.  i tried to retrace my steps but can not think of anything I did.  I attached the WD external Drive to my G4 PowerBook and both drives appeared under the PB's system HD.
Soes anyone have an idea what  might have done to cause this problem and how I can get it back to function correctly?

Hi Darrel,
Some ideas to check...
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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