 firewire (and internal modem) gone...
sounds frighteningly familiar...
Last week I had the same problem (iPod charging, but not visible on the desktop / external 250GB drive "M.I.A." / additional slave computer not "showing up for work" (BAD slave!)
...in addition, my PB's internal modem was "hanging up unexpectedly" every couple of minutes...
I re-installed OSX (10.2.1) and then upgraded again to 10.2.4
All seems to be OK again now - but very strange - my original OS came with my PB, and upgraded via System Preference's "software update"...
Sorry I can't give an explanation as to "why?" - just my personal experience as to how I resolved the problem... |