Start-up hangs with firewire connected

This problem started when I upgraded to the most recent Snow Leopard (10.6.3).
Hardware: I have a iMac, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I have one firewire 400 port into which is plugged an external Iomega 500GB hard drive, to which two other external FW 400 HD's and one Epson stylus photo R800 printer (firewire) are connected via extra firewire ports on the Iomega drive (it's like a Mac Mini style external HD).
When I boot up the iMac, the screen hangs indefinitely at grey with no further progress in starting up unless I unplug the FW cable from the iMac. Then it instantly proceeds to finish booting up. If I plug in the FW cable before the desktop appears, I can hear all my desktop stuff loading (e.g., chew-toy sounds when my scanner driver loads) but I see no desktop picture or cursor. If I disconnect the FW cable, the desktop appears and all is fine.
The FW port works fine, all the externals work fine, the printer works.
It's just that the startup hangs if that FW cable is plugged into the iMac. Any ideas?

Ann,
I would use the process of elimination to determine which device is causing the problem. I would start with your Epson printer, my rationale is I can't think of any reason to have any printer connected via FW, in fact I'm kind of surprised Epson even put a FW port on it.
Regards,
Roger

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