thank you to all who responded. to answer a question:
what happens is the computer crashes with that horrible scary screen with the japanese characters and the message that the computer must be restarted. i unplugged all my externals and put them back in one by one. as soon as i plug in the...
I installed Tiger only to find that I can no longer use my 250gb Maxtor FireWire Drive that has very important stuff on it. I could cry. Apple should have warned people that this could happen.