Just an update:

The new external drive enclosure arrived yesterday and this morning I installed the drive successfully both in the enclosure (!) and on the system. All is well!

Now, I just have to be sure I force myself to take a week and index everything on there and offload it to DVD!

Thank you guys for your help....it was VERY much appreciated!!!

::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::