Help! External LaCie hard drive 1.6TB suddenly won't appear on desk top.

From the beginning: I was in the process of backing up onto my LaCie external disk using the FireWire 800 cable. (The model is a LaCie 1.6 Tera-byte, forgot the brand name of this model, but it can connect via FireWire 800 or 400. I'm using the FireWire 800 cable on my PowerBook 15 inch G4, 1.5 GHz). While it was backing up, I connected a Flash card reader via a USB port. After I disconnected the Flash card properly by "ejecting" it, a few seconds later or maybe it was 30 seconds later (not sure), the uploading to the LaCie disk stopped. I could still access it via the desktop, but the folders showed nothing inside them, just blank. Then everything slowed down, followed by the "spinning beach ball" of dread. I restarted everything, but the LaCie icon did not show up on the desktop afterwards.
Using the Apple System Profiler, the LaCie disk appears there, but when I click "Verify Disk" it says "Invalid node structure" and "Volume LaCie disk needs to be repaird." When I click "Repair Disk" it says "Invalid node structure" and "Volume check failed," and after that "1 HFS Volume checked - 1 volume could not be repaired because of an error."
I tried FileSalvage software, and I let it run for about 20 minutes and it scanned up to 24 GB and seems to have the ability to recover files, though it does not recover the file names, it seems, and the process is extremely slow for over 600 GBs to recover. I am wondering if there is something to reset or redo, so I can access over 2 full months of work, which I will immediately backup on DVD disks. Thanks for any help!
PowerBook G4 15 in. Mac OS X (10.4.4)
PowerBook G4 15 in. Mac OS X (10.3.8)
PowerBook G4 15 in. Mac OS X (10.3.8)
PowerBook G4 15 in. Mac OS X (10.4.4)
PowerBook G4 15 in. Mac OS X (10.3.8)

I hear it spinning- I think?
That may not be so good because it suggests the power is getting to it and it is something else more critical to the functioning of the drive that is wrong. If it is the enclosure you could try moving it out of the enclosure into a different one, or into the computer.
I just used Disk Warrior to rebuild the directory- no luck.
Ah, so did Diskwarrior see the drive? I didn't think you could see the drive in Disk Utility.
I also replaced the firewire Cable- no luck.
Good try but the flashing blue light suggested something else to me.
I'm now doing to bring it to a local Computer Store to try to retrieve the information.
Try using an application such as [Data Rescue II|http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php] or [FileSalvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1]. Both have free trial versions that let you see if the software will help before you decide to buy. You will also need a second hard drive equal to or larger in size than your first drive.
I wrote to Lacie- but they are so slow in responding- it will be days.
Ummmm....

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