WD MyBook worked on MacBook, not recognized on iBook

I had to send my Macbook (with latest Tiger) in for repairs, and backed up everything to my western digital mybook essential. I am using my fiancee's iBook (with panther) until then, but it says "you are using a disk with volumes that Mac OS X cannot read...." and gives me options to "initialize", "eject" or "ignore."
I now realize that hitting "initialize" may have been very stupid. My question is "how stupid?" When I hit initialize, thinking it meant "mount the stupid disk", it took me to disk utility but none of the options to anything were available other than to eject. Did I destroy my data?
Please help!

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