Fire wire gone

I upgraded to itunes 7.02 Im still using osx 10.3.9 all of a sudden my color ipod wont update through a fire wire port. It lights up and charges and the fan speed on the computer changes but itunes wont find it. It still works fine on my laptop and works through the usb port but that takes forever. Do I need to downgrade to get this firewire feature back?

Yes - "G4 Desk" is a very generic description.
Go to Apple Menu>About This Mac>More Info>Hardware to see which chip you have.
Or try here http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Models.cfm?TI=5950 to see if you can figure out which one is yours.
MJ

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