Leopard has killed my firewire ports, please help....

Hi all,
i recently upgraded to leopard, all seemed to go well, had to download a new printer driver but thats ok.
I shut the power off for a holiday, upon my return, the printer (epson r2400 on firewire) refused to function, killed the driver, reinstalled, no use. Tried it on USB and it all worked as normal.
Ok, i thought, bit wierd but ok.
Today i go to download 6gb of photos via my firewire c/f card reader and its totally dead.
All was fine on the old O/s so whats going on?? and when is the bug-fix coming out??
I really need to get working again as photography is part of how i earn a living!
thanks in advance
dave

Thanks for reply,
In the space between then and now, i spoke to a colleague who gave me a list to try. The first option seems to have done the trick...
Shutdown,
Unplug EVERYTHING except video,
Reboot,
Reconnect peripherals one by one, pausing briefly between each.
This seems to have worked, reason unknown but at least i'm running again.
Dave

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