Missing desktop icon for Seagate 500GB FW external drive

I have recently lost my desktop icon for my Seagate 500GB FW external drive.... it there!!!! System profiler sees it, so does Disk Utilities and even my back up program will still back up to it. However no desktop icon to access it...What did I do or did not do HELP!!!
iMAC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   1G RAM

Did you ever figure this one out?
I have seen two external Seagate drives (FW, 500GB) stop mounting after about one use on a mac. Neither of them would show up under windows XP or 2000 afterwards.
I reformatted one, and am wondering if I'll need to do the same thing to the other.
Thanks for any info!
Dual 2.5 GHz G5, 1 GB SDRAM   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

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