FW Drives Mounted on Network not Appearing

Hello all:
I have a MacPro with 4 FW drives connected to it via FW 800. My macmini, downstairs (used as a home theater PC) usually connects to those drives in order to stream movies, audio etc (connects via Gigabit Ethernet). Now, since the most recent 10.5.2 update, only 2 of the drives appears. They are daisy chained FW800, all have their own power supply and are all mounted and visible in the MacPro.
It is only when I am on the macmini, when I click on the MPro under Shared in Finder, that some of the FW drives appear and some don't. One of the drives that is visible on the mini is a LaCie Bigger Disk 2TB. The other that does NOT appear is also a LaCie 2TB drive. I also have a smaller LaCie drive that is not visible (mounted via FW400 on a separate bus).
Another point to mention, if I click on an alias to the drive, it tells me: The volume "DRIVE A" could not be mounted. Obviously it works fine on the MP, so this is unusual.
Weird thing is, before the update, I was able to access all the drives on MP via sharing on the macmini via FrontRow and all my movies were available. Now half the library is inaccessible. Any thoughts anyone?

I'm not exactly sure what's happened, but in 10.4.9 configd was apparently put under the control of launchd. Launchd unloads libraries and won't load them again until there's a demand, and apparently those Bonjour events don't kick up a demand.
Okay, that probably sounds like a lot of geekspeak. What it means in practical terms is that you need to go to all your machines, turn of Personal File Sharing, wait a second, and turn it back on. That should do the trick.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what went wrong, but this should do as a workaround.

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