cds won't mount, iPod won't mount

[Mac M.D.]

I had posted some problems with cds mounting on a titanium g4 running system 10.1.3 in a previous thread. I now noticed that 2 different iPods won't mount on the desktop as well. The Apple System Profiler says the iPod is connected to the firewire port, but neither of them will mount or show up in iTunes.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Basically I am losing all functionality in OS X since I can't mount or burn a cd, or connect either iPod.

Help!

I have reinstalled OS 10.1.1 and then updated to 10.1.3 to no avail. I really don't want to format the drive, but I don't know how to do a "cleaner" OS X install without losing everything.

Any help would be appreciated!

Gary Katz
Mac M.D. Inc.