Tiger, ibook FWD question

greetings
i hooked my Lacie FWD (via FW400) to my brother in laws ibook (10.4.3, i believe it is the 1.33) and the disk would mount and i could access all of my files just fine. my problem began when i tried to boot from my FWD via system preferences (yes it has a bootable volume of panther 10.3.5 with the latest FWD firmware update, i use it all the time on my emac just fine) i got as far as the spinning grey thing and then it would freeze. i had to shut down the ibook and unplug my FWD and then i would restart the ibook without the FWD hooked up. i would get the flashing ? in the folder for a second and then the ibook would boot up from the internal HD. every time i start up the ibook now the flashing ? folder shows up just for a second and then the internal HD starts up.tried repairing permissions on the internal HD but it didn't help.
any ideas?
bill

Matthew
i had no idea that bootable clones were computer specific. my FWD has an OS that i installed on the FWD and not a clone of my emac. the ibook did come with tiger on it. again, i had no idea that an ibook couldn't boot to an earlier version of an OS than it has on it. i have tiger (10.4.2) on my emac now, although it shipped with 10.1.5 originally, it boots (from FWD's) 9.2, 10.1.5, 10.3.5 and my bootable clone of tiger. superduper is so awesome! no i have not gone back to check if the internal HD is selected now. i will do that tomorrow. i just assumed that it would default back to the option it has to boot from, being the internal HD.
thanks for your reply
bill

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