Firewire ports, USB ports, and CD/DVD drive not recognized.

I have a G3 PB with 2 FW and 2USB ports. I am running 10.2.8 with 256MB RAM. Upon starting this AM, I noticed the CD that was in my CD drive was not recognized. Nothing on the desktop. I have a 120 GB LaCie external firewire drive which was not recognized either. I tried a Lexar 2 GB thumb drive in the USB port but again nothing on the desktop. Here's what I have tried without success:
1.) Several Restarts.Drives removed during start. Hooked to different ports after restart with no sign of drive on the desktop.
2,) Resart With extensions off
3.) Zapped the PRAM
4.) Started from Systems disk and noted both external drives seen by the startup disk but thumb drive stated that it
wasn't mounted.
5.) Ran and fixed permissions on internal hard drive. Ran disk first aid. Restart again from internal drive would not recognize ports.
6.) Created a new user account hoping a fresh account would recognize the peripherals but no luck.
7.) Now wondering, if drives are seen by System install disk but not internal drive, is the OS askew in some way and if there are any tricks anyone knows to bring "sight to the blind"?
G3 PB Mac OS X (10.2.x)

How about running TechTool Deluxe (Comes on your Apple Care CD)
Also, run Repair Disk from your Install Disc one (1).
TechTool might show some things, and Repair Disk, from Disk Utilities on the install disk (1) might help repair some unknown issue.
Another also, (Try after the afore mentioned, and/or before run Disk utility to see if the thumb drives mount in the Drives column) from your App./utilities/disk utilities.
Hope these steps help.
L+
eMac 1.25 Ghz superdrive 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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