Firewire slot broken?

Hi,
i think my internal FW card is gone, i need help to confirm that.
Yesterday i connected my macbook pro 15" to an older G4 that i'm using as fileserver.
I put my macbook pro in Target Mode and i plugged FW cable (the same cable used everyday to connect drives). Nothing happened also trying to unplug and plug it again. Ok maybe my g4 is so old i thinked...
Reboot my macbook pro since then takes about 5-7 minutes, when to Finder i see istat pro on top is working but i can't click nothing. Looking in console, after my mac turn to life, i see
system_profiler[398]: SPFWR ERROR: FireWire bus may be unstable. Other FireWire devices may be present.
In Apple System Profiler under Firewire > Unable to list device
I tried to restart and reset SMC, zap pram, repair permissions and finally unload / reload related IOFW kexts but nothing.
Now after some reboots it doesn't work anymore, no more error logs. The FW port is disappeared and hangs too of course.
Now in Apple System Profiler under FW ... No ports
It seems to me an hw problem , i can live without my FW port but what i really want to know is that should be a sign of a progressive painful agony or not...
Consider that apple replaced my logic board on this macbook pro on late 2008 - graphic card broken.
you can understand that a new logic board (out of warranty period) is not worthy in this case...
Someone can suggest to me a deep test on it?
thanks in advance

A similar thing has happened to me on 2 different MBPs (one 2.16 C2D and the other a 2.4 C2D, 4 and 3 years old respectively) in different places in the last week. Both have been using external FW800 hard drives, and then suddenly after a restart the drives refuse to power up from the FW bus. Restarting again not only didn't fix it, but caused the system to become unresponsive after start-up (could move the mouse, but couldn't click or use the keyboard). Startup programs would launch so it wasn't totally hung, but no input devices fully worked (tried both the built in keyboard/trackpad and a external Logitec keyboard/mouse combo - same results). Booting into "safe mode" (holding shift) returned the computer to functionality, but FW obviously still didn't work (and the keyboard obviously worked as it registered the shift key-press to enter safe mode)
I also tried booting off the 10.6 install DVD which worked fine, but Disk utility wouldn't recognize any drives attached to the FW bus (400 or 800) while on another iMac the same process recognized a FW attached device. As well, when I ran System Profiler from the install DVD on the MPBs, it said that it was "unable to list FireWire devices", whereas everything listed fine on the iMac.
In the end, removing the FW kexts from System/Library/Extensions allowed the computer to boot up normally and everything work (keyboard/mouse problem gone - startup was also a bit faster) but of course the FW bus is not functional anymore.
So, it seems to me to be a hardware issue as well, but that it's happened on 2 isolated computers within 4 days (after both using FW every day for 3-4 years) seems like too big a coincidence. I can't think of any software update that was installed recently, but I'm suspicious that there is some software issue that fried the FW controller. Anybody else having this issue?

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