FireWire Drive in Enclosure Will not mount cleanly after installn Leopard

Help!
I installed Leopard and had a devil of a time and may have messed up my External 200 GB Maxtor drive in an Enclosure connected via firewire directly to my Mac.
Let me explain: I had a Maxtor internal 200 GB Hard Drive. I removed that drive and put it in an Enclosure connected with a FireWire Cable to my G4 QuickSilver desk top. I purchased a larger Seagate 500 GB Hard Drive and installed Leopard on it in the same internal slot where the Maxtor was installed previously. My other Internal Drive was a Seagate 250 GB Hard Drive on which I have Tiger with the latest update. Now I have two operating systems--one on the Sea Gate 250 GB with Tiger --and the other is a internal Hard Drive is 500 GB Seagate with Leopard on it. I now have installed two different version of MacOS X respectively. I select the boot drive in the System Preferences as I want to migrate to Leopard slowly due to the software programs that will require later updates with Leopard.
The external Maxtor drive now does not "mount" upon reboot like the other LaCie drives Firewire external Drives. If I toggle the drive "Power Switch" "on and off" the Maxtor in the enclosure is finally displayed on the desk top. A message comes up, that I *"did not eject the drive properly and I could loose data", "Initialize, Cancel or Eject"*. I choose "Cancel". Then the drive comes back to the desk top.
This all started up after I had to reinstall Leopard as Leopard would poll all ports and got confused--and took forever to install. I had to reformat the internal new Seagate 500 HD and wrote "0" on it and then installed Leopard on it from the DVD. It did not install properly the second time. I had to power down and disconnect all USB and Fire Wire peripherals including the Maxtor. Then I installed Leopard from the DVD and right away did the update. Finally Safari worked in Leopard. Then I reconnected all peripherals including the Maxtor.
Now the Maxtor does not display on the Desk top. When I toggle the external hard drive "off on" switch I found the "External 200 GB Maxtor data drive in an Initio Enclosure" on the disk top. In Disk Utility I tried to "repair" it and sometime that takes. It seems to have the data files on it--and I also run Disk Warrior and Tech Tools Pro. Tech Tools shows two mount points names "Disk4 Initio 6L20P0" and "Disk5 Initio L200P0". It also shows "Disk ID Disk 5s2" and also "Disk ID 4s2". I ran Both Tech Tools and Disk Warrior on it and Disk Warrior crashed during the rewriting of the Desktop during the first time I ran it.
This disk was an internal disk which I put into an enclosure but it worked previously as a data drive prior when Tiger was on a different drive. Ii worked OK as a mounted HD prior to my installing Leopard. After to installing Leopard initially on the new Seagate internal 500 GB Drive, Leopard would hang up in Safari after the initial installation.
I was on line with Apple Tech Support and I had to reinstall Leopard and do the update after reformatting the 500 GB internal Seagate. Now Leopard works OK except it does not display the Maxtor HD on the desk top. The Tiger works OK also except it also does not display the Maxtor HD on the desk top. I have to toggle the "off on switch" to get them to mount the Maxtor on the Desk top. That is when the message comes up about the "Initialize, Cancel or Eject".
What advise can you give me?
bobg

Well I am happy to report the solution to my F/W enclosure drive dilemma.
I had to do an archive and reinstall of Tiger from the DVD. Then I used the Combo updater as suggested by someone on this Group Discussion Forum to get my Maxtor F/W drive to mount and behave properly on my desk top.
I tried everything in between--but this seems to work OK for now.
After I installed Tiger as an Archive and Install from the DVD, I downloaded the Combo Updater to 10.4.11. I shut down and removed all items from my computer except the monitor and keyboard and Airport Extreme Base Station.
Then I installed the update.
I plugged in the connections including my Lacie FW external drives and they mounted easily. Then I plugged in the Maxtro in an enclosure. It mounted--as it had many times before.
Then I checked it in System profiler--and the drive and the Maxtor Volume name were displayed under the FW items in the Initio Enclosure. The other two Lacie F/W drives were also displayed.
I then jumped to Disk Utility and the drives were all displayed.
I selected the Maxtor and repaired the drive and one bad file count was detected and Disk Utility repaired it.
Then I shut down and rebooted into the Safe Mode. I opened the desk top and all drives were seen. This procedure apparently cleans out the caches and other items that might confuse the HD.
Upon reboot, I could see all 3 F/W drives and the 2 internal drives on the desk top.
Hopefully I am out of the woods--but now I have to make sure all my drivers and other items are back in service.
I have Photo Shop Elements 3 now working and so does my scanner aster I had to work on the scanner settings. My printer is still not printing yet from my scanner.
Most other items seem to work--including Safari 3.04.
I hope no one else makes that same mistake--always remove all items from your computer when a major update or install of a new Mac OS is performed.
This cost me 2 weeks of agony--including a spoiled Thanksgiving Holiday!!
bobg

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