Odd firewire ipod behavior

So, I've been having a problem with my ipod photo 60gb for quite some time now - syncing photos. Finally thought I need to figure out the problem. The symptons were that it would take ages to sync my photos, but would eventually finish. Once I unplugged my iPod everything was hunky dory, but when I plug it back in it is unreadable, and I have to restore and re-sync everything.
After some research I discovered that this must be due to 1 or more corrupt photos in my iPhoto library (which seems fine).
Long story short - here is where I am:
I have an external firewire drive been in use for a long time just fine - used it on either of my firewire ports (QSDP800 upgraded). I use firewire on my iPod and have since I got it (it did not always exhibit this problem).
Now, I discovered that if I copy a photo (a good photo) to my desktop it works fine. Copy it to my external firewire drive, it's fine. Copy it to my iPod - it's corrupt and unreadable.
I have tried another Firewire cable, and my other firewire port (where my ext firewire drive was).
I only have USB1.1 so it's slow, but I tried a iPod USB cable and it worked! Obviously I cannot always use this (too slow).
I can potentially get a firewire/USB2 PCI expansion card or better, figure out why this is happening.
It's not the cable (tried 2) and not the firewire port (use an external drive on it, and tried the iPod with no other firewire devices) and not my photos (they are fine) not the iPod (works with USB). I guess it could (longshot) be the firewire interface inside the iPod, but what are the chances?
Any thoughts?

If you eject the drives properly, does that help? Perhaps you can change the order they are daisy chained and switch the 800 to the 400 and vice versa. I assume that each of the drives has its own power brick? Try resetting the FW bus:
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Disconnect all devices and all other cables, except the keyboard and mouse cable(s).
3. Disconnect the computer from the power outlet and wait for 3 to 5 minutes.
4. Plug the computer back in and turn it on.
5. Reconnect the device(s) (one at a time if there is more than one) and test. Test with each port if you have more than one.
Please let us know if anything helped.

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