SanDisk Extreme IV Firewire reader and Apple Macs running Snow Leopard

I have the same problem.  I’ve been trying to fix it for over a year with no luck.  Reader worked great for over 2 years, Upgraded to Snow Leopard and boom… it doesn’t work.  I’ve downloaded the “fix” from sandisk, but it just crashes every time I try to run it (downloaded mulitple times to ensure a good download).   Little to no support from Sandisk about this problem, and I’m done using their readers.  I now use slower USB readers from other manufactures.  I don’t know what else to do.