LaCie external drive data recovery in 10.5?

I purchased my iMac on Sunday. My 500GB LaCie Big Disk Extreme mounted in OSX v10.5 with no problems.
I was running 10.3.9 prior to Sunday, so I checked for updates to various applications, and found LaCie's Update Tool, Ver. 1.4.2.
Just as the 1.4.2 update was finishing, I received an 'unable to update firmware' message, and the drive has not mounted since. It shows up in both Disk Utility and System Profiler, but DU will not allow me to Verify or Repair. I moved the LaCie back to my old G4, and it would not mount there either.
I spoke to Apple Care this morning as well as LaCie's tech support. Both assumptions are that my LaCie external drive is corrupted, and in need of data recovery.
Apart from being bummed, I am confused by the yes/no postings for Disk Warrior and other such data recovery programs, in relation to 10.5 compatibility.
Any suggestions at this point would be welcome, as I'm lost without them.

It seemed to work for a little while. Under the CBR folder, there were 61 separate files of JPEG images alone. The first dozen or so seemed to come through alright, then I saw nothing but striated and partial (like 10% visible) images after that, no matter which of the JPEG folders I downloaded from.
I also tried to pick individual image files at random from any of the folders (both the CBR subfolders and the LaCie BigDisk Extreme Media subfolders) and everything I tried was mush. I utilized the recommended Allocation Blocks Layout settings (I have 7 settings available after my scan), and downloaded the same image 7 times with no success. One of the settings would give me a highly distorted image, and the other 6 came up unable to be opened.
I'm appreciating the encouragement here. I don't feel like giving up and walking away from this without a fight. I'm not wealthy, but I'm willing to spend some bucks to see this resolved without loss.
Any suggestions on data retrieval services?
I'm sorry to seem reliant, because I'm not well-versed with these things, but it's because I'm proud to say that I never had one single issue with my G4 over the course of five years of daily use.

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