Not all ports are created equal

Finally solved the cdparanoia/Firewire DVD burner problem. It lay in the newer port, which apparently queries for drives in a different way. When I tried recompiling the older port, I didn't install it, so when I tested it from the source folder, it called upon the libraries built by the newer version and thus, was doomed to failure.

Once I trashed the first set and installed a fresh compile of the original port, everything worked fine again.

I figured all this out after going through a round of installs and updates on an external drive, on the assumption that I'd screwed something up by using Monolingual to strip out the superfluous Intel-binary portions of OS X and should therefore try on a fresh system.

Good thing I caught it before I went so far as to wipe and reinstall the PowerBook.

On another note, finally started using Ogg Vorbis for converting my cds now that there's a working Quicktime component so that I can listen to them in iTunes.