IPhone 3GS no longer syncing with external hard drive

Going to try this in a new thread as I had no answer to my reply in another discussion..... Here goes:
Okay, I have a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard in which I just updated iTunes to 10.4. My iTunes library is on an external hard drive.
I updated my iPhone to 4.3.4 and the syncing stopped working. It did not download all of my purchased items from the phone.
I get an error that it cannot write to the iPhone then get an error regarding some of the photos or music. Here is what I have done -
I restored my iPhone
I removed all photos from the iPhone and uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes
I unplugged the external from my mini and then it did a sync just fine - course I wasn't syncing anything to it!
I plugged back in the external via Firewire which is what it was before and I get the errors.
I haven't done anything with the photos and it is syncing ringtones fine - it is not syncing tv shows or all music - it comes up with an error
I uninstalled 10.4 and reinstalled the previous version of iTunes and again - same thing.. I have switched out the external hard drive cable and plugged it into different locations
I am at my wits end - want my phone back
Prior to the latest iTunes update everything was fine but of course I hadn't updated the iPhone yet - so I don't know which update is now causing the problem although I'm thinking it's the iTunes update..
Any thoughts? Beyond frustrated at this point.

I see views but no replies I have no clue what to do with this problem..
anybody?

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