Finder and iTunes stall when attempting to access ext. firewire HD

Since I upgraded to 10.4.10, the Finder, iTunes, and other apps that are attempting to access files on the external hard drive completely beachball/stall when waking the hard drive from sleep. Additionally, the dock and menu bar bork.
The only fix is to unplug the hard drive (without properly ejecting it!), and instantly, all the apps become responsive.
Anyone have information on this. My external hard drive, which contains my iTunes music and other files, has become virtually useless.

Same thing is happening to me.. Both at home on my Powerbook G4 and work on my G5.
Was working perfectly. Both systems running 10.4.10.
Lacie 80gig FW400 drive.
Thinking it was the drive failing I promptly cloned it.
DiskWarrior and Disk Utility show no signs of error. I've reformatted, Zeroed all data many times. The drive 'appears' to be fine. I have copied my music back on to the drive; but it Hangs finder.
I've tried to re-import the music through iTunes to the drive. Again, gets about halfway and hangs finder.
Occasionally Disk Utility will return : "error could not unmount disk" when checking it out with Repair/Verify Sometimes it's fine.

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