My Book 500 GB ext firewire drive not compatible with osx 10.3.9???

When apple support immediately blames other companies for problems and at the same time refuses to help me get osx booting on an external hard drive just because apple didn't make the external device, it sure sounds like microsoft's slimy politics. Should I stop buying macs because they won't boot off an external hard drive because apple support won't help?
I tried copying my current osx with diskutil (an apple product). When I try to boot off it, I get a square with a ? then the finder icon, then it boots off the internal hard drive. Surely its a problem with diskutil (an apple product)!
I have no problems booting off my internal drive so I know the os is good. I ran disk util and it reported errors which disk util couldn't fix but disk warrier said it fixed... OMG!
Funny thing is... it reported different errors on the 2 drives (one a copy of the other). Tried using carbon copy clone which always worked before. It refuses to boot of the my book drive. I have leopard on a second external drive which boots normally. So what is wrong with the 500gb My book drive or osx? It is a firewire drive so it should boot. It had no problem installing a dozen times osx 10.3.9 & 10.3.5 but still get the same ? and finder icons before booting internally.
Tried to get help from WD (drive maker). No luck after the 4th try so I'm zeroing the drive and taking it back.
Unless I can get it working tomorrow... somehow... without apple support....?
And I bought the drive so I could use Time Machine! (another apple product). No support there either...
Should I just turf the drive and stop buying macs?

Thanks for the quick response. I didn't bother to check what format it had. Just reformatted it for mac.
Yes, I ran the disk partion in diskutil and split it into 2 partitions. Didn't make any difference with the boot problem because when I set it back to one partion and installed 10.3.5 off the dvd, it still had the same ? finder icon issue. So I doubt it was a partition issue.
So I did format it hfs+ and used the partition tab in disk util. So that's why I don't understand why it is suddenly a problem as I had no issue cloning drives to my other ext. hard drive.
At first I thought it might be an issue with the bootable partition not being the first one listed. But that didn't make a difference when I changed the order. Usually I just run carbon copy cloner and make a bootable copy but that didn't work either. Tried installing from the dvd, that didn't work either. So I'm at a loss to explain why its such a nightmare to make a bootable backup.
The working copy on my internal hard drive runs just fine even with/without errors. Surely a cloned copy should also work as it has in the past.
Basically, I wanted to clone my internal hd to an external one so I can move my leopard os on another ext hd and put it on my internal drive.
Right now I have panther on my ibook drive and leopard on my ext hd. I'd rather have it the other way around since the leopard patches seem to have fixed things.
On my panther drive I have vp7 and xp installed. Whether that makes a difference, who knows?

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