I can no longer use any of my external hard drives or my phone

Hi,
I have a macbook pro and everything was fine 4 days ago. Now when I plug in any external hard drives, or even my phone, they do not show up anywhere. the phone is the only thing that even shows up in the system information. It was fine 4 days ago....I transfered a bunch of files to a hard drive, ejected it properly and now nothing...please help

here is a copy of the disc utility log....laila is the name of the extrenal hd i was able to use successfully last.
2012-07-04 08:10:34 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400: Preparing to erase : “LAILA”
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:           Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:           1 volume will be created
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:                     Name                    : “LAILA”
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:                     Size                    : 160.04 GB
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:                     File system          : MS-DOS (FAT)
2012-07-04 08:17:59 -0400: Unmounting disk
2012-07-04 08:18:02 -0400: Creating the partition map
2012-07-04 08:18:03 -0400: Waiting for the disks to reappear
2012-07-04 08:18:03 -0400: Formatting disk3s1 as MS-DOS (FAT) with name LAILA
2012-07-04 08:18:04 -0400: 512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk3s1: 312505472 sectors in 4882898 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=2 drv=0x80 bsec=312581806 bspf=38148 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
2012-07-04 08:18:04 -0400: Mounting disk
2012-07-04 08:18:06 -0400: Erase complete.
2012-07-04 08:18:06 -0400:
2012-07-11 15:48:08 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-11 15:48:42 -0400: Eject of “Unattached Disk Image” succeeded
2012-07-11 15:48:42 -0400: Eject of “Flash Player” failed
2012-07-11 15:59:10 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-11 16:00:51 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-11 16:02:19 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-12 23:22:04 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-13 09:13:52 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-13 09:20:22 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-13 09:45:11 -0400: Disk Utility started.
===== Friday, July 13, 2012 9:47:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time =====

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here is a copy of the disc utility log....laila is the name of the extrenal hd i was able to use successfully last.
2012-07-04 08:10:34 -0400: Disk Utility started.
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400: Preparing to erase : “LAILA”
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2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:                     Size                    : 160.04 GB
2012-07-04 08:17:58 -0400:                     File system          : MS-DOS (FAT)
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2012-07-04 08:18:02 -0400: Creating the partition map
2012-07-04 08:18:03 -0400: Waiting for the disks to reappear
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===== Friday, July 13, 2012 9:47:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time =====

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