Firewire stop functioning after 10.4.7 update

Hello all,
I have been bitten by one of those update bugs. I ran software update this morning on my Powerbook G4 DVI. Eventually, I got the machine to restart after about 20 minutes of nothing. Everything ran fine for the most part until I tried to connect an external DVD burner. The drive is a Lite-On Lightscribe model that ran just perfectly well before the update. After the update, no luck. In fact no firewire device works on the machine despite the firewire drive showing up in the System Profiler. I have tried 2 different Macally Firewire enclosures and a first gen 5 GB iPod to same effect. The enclosures work well if I use them in the USB port. Sadly, I have only USB 1.1 on my machine and that speed is insufficient for my use.
Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

Do you mean the cache files? If so, I've never have. The only cache files I routinely delete are Safari's. For troubleshooting startup issues, I rely on:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25392
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805 and
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/startupitems.html.
In the six years I've been running this machine, the only problem I ever had was a corrupted HD that I couldn't erase or reformat three years ago.

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