Firewire network fails when I turn Airport on

1. I want to network two tiger machines via firewire, for backup purposes.
After I've connected via firewire (manually via "Go" menu, since nothing else works), I turn my Airport back on, and it dismounts the connected volume. Why is this happening, and how do I stop it?
2. The reason I turn airport off is because bonjour seems to default to it, even though I've put firewire at the top of the list on both computers. Is there another way to face this problem?

This problem has been solved. John at Apple Support spent quite a bit of time with me on the phone until he fixed the problem. Turns out that my router had assigned the same IP address to two of my devices. He had me go to Preferences>Network and delete Airport, then restart and add Airport. That time it selected a different IP address and all was working again. Thanks John.

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