Mac Mini + Ministack + PB G4...?

Hi,
i just got a new mac mini and ministack, and they really look nice! anyways, i want to copy some things from my PB G4 to the ministack using a firewire, and i have a bunch of questions that i would like to ask you guys.
last night, i connected my mac mini and ministack with a firewire cable. and then, i connected my pb to the ministack using a firewire cable. i thought the pb HD would appear on the mac mini desktop, but it didn't. and the ministack would appear on the desktop of either pb or mini, but not on both at the same time. is this normal?
then, i decided to copy things from the pb to the ministack first, thinking that the mini would be able to see those things in the ministack later. however, after i copied everything to the ministack and disconnected the pb, i restarted my mini to find the copied files in the ministack. they were not there! did i do something wrong?
and if i want to copy files and/or applications from my pb to mini or vice versa, how can i do that?
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
oh, one more question: i hear people talking about using the ministack as the bootup HD. if one sets the machines this way, is it hard to go back and use the original HD as the bootup drive later?

Jana--
First of all, if there's a way to mount an external volume (such as your ministack) to two or more desktops simultaneously, I'm not aware of it. I tried it just now with a dual-port external FW hard drive connected to both my PowerBook and my Mac mini, and I could only get it to mount on one or the other, not both. So, that much seems normal.
Now, if basically what you want to do is copy data between your Mac mini and PowerBook, you can leave the ministack out of the equation and just connect your Mac mini to your PowerBook via a FireWire cable and use either FireWire target-disk mode, or a file-sharing network using IP over FireWire.
Here are instructions describing how.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1845.html
Hope this helps.
PowerBook G4 (15 FW800); 17 iMac G5; Mac mini 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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