What can make my Firewire drive unbootable?

I have a 17" 800MHz iLamp. Here's the situation: I do a complete backup of my HD to an external Firewire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. Now, this used to work just fine, but at some unknowable point in the past, something changed. Now, if I choose the external drive as my startup disk, it won't work. When I restart I get the grey apple screen with the spinny thing, it thinks for awhile (2-3 minutes or so) and then the apple changes to the circle-slash "no" symbol.
The thing is, that same external drive will boot my other machine - a 933MHz G3 iBook - just fine. The problem is somehow specific to the iMac.
I'm running 10.3.9.
The data on the backup drive seems good otherwise, and I have tried repairing privs post-backup, to no avail.
Any thoughts on why this might be?

Nobody really knows. There's lots of posts in here about it.
Some people are re-installing, going back to 10.4.3. You'd have to archive and install, upgrade to 10.4.3 with the COMBO drive and consider updating your Quicktime.

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