White circle with a diagonal stripe

After this last round of updates my two computors (intel and PPC) are playing up. Each computor has an ext hard drive one usb the other fw. The computors use airport to connect. Here's my problem;
I wanted to compile a cd from some of my one hit wonder cd's. When I inserted a cd and tried to drag a file to the ext hd to copy I got the white circle with diagonal preventing me from doing it. It may be a coincidence but I was dragging music files to the ext without a problem before the update. It's not just music files, it's any file.
I've repaired permissions
I've logged out/in
I've created a new account, all with no luck.
At this time I don't wish to reinstall, the problem is on two computors!
Can anyone tell what causes the white circle and how to get rid of it?
Thanks
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.9) G5 tower
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.10)

mattn
answers to your questions: yes, yes, yes. The name of the disk in question is very long.
Malcolm
I think we are getting close.
relaunching the finder by "Option click on its icon in the dock" did nothing to the screen so I relaunched by "cmdoptionesc", it had some good results.
I had no previous problems copying tracks to the ext HD until I inserted a CD with a long name. The name has 56 letters/commas/brackets and including the spaces is 70 things long. I won't use the actual name but it looks like this:
Aaaa Aaaa Aaa Aaaaa Aaaaa Aa Aaaa A Aaaa, Aaa. 1 (A Aaaa Aaaaaa Aaaa)
Once I insert that disc, I can not copy anything. When I remove it, I still can not copy anything. It's like the ext HD/CD are locked!
With no disc inserted and I relaunch the finder after deleting "com.apple.recentitems.plist" I have success and can copy from ext HD to internal HD.
Inserting a CD with a short name I can copy tracks to either internal/ext HD.
Inserting the long name CD brings back the problem.
I didn't think that the mac had a problem with long names?
Can you tell me what to do next?
Thanks
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.10) G5 tower

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