Macbook will not recognize DVD and any External HD

All of a sudden, My two external hard drives, which have loaded perfectly in the past, are not being recognized by OSX. I inserted my Leopard Install DVD and it received the same warning message "The Disk Inserted was not recognized...." The DVD is not showing, nor can be ejected.
when i got to disk utility, the DVD is shown as a blank is inserted. And when i look at the external drives, i have no available options. I "repaired permissions" on the internal HD but that had no effect.
Also, coincidentally, My spotlight has stopped working. It is unable to find anything. When i followed some instructions my out come was "no index". The computer cant seem to read any volumes or something....
I have a feeling there is some sort of conflict, but am not sure how to resolve it.
Help!
and Thanks.

Also, i get a mount failure ("no disks available to mount") if i try to open any disk iso.
It is a universal filesystem error, I have tried to force mount the externals to no luck. I get the "no disks available to mount"......

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