10.4.8 + ADM Removal - Xserve Unresponsive

Updated Xserve G4 to 10.4.8 and now it will become unresponsive requiring hard reboot whenever I try to remove one of the Apple Drive Modules.
After Retrospect backup a script put's away the volumes related to the drive in the ADM we want to remove. The volumes are removed from the desktop and the server remains fine up until the moment the drive is removed. Then applications won't launch, menus won't open and we get the spinning beachball that only a restart by holding the power button down will fix.
It worked fine prior to running the 10.4.8 update. Any ideas?

I was thinking of a way that the appletalk on the Mac desktops connect to the Xserve server sharepoints.
As I am linked into Microsoft Active Directory the users will mount all there appletalk sharepoint on our Xserve, without having to enter there user name and password but to use there active directory password to authticate login automatically.
As this works if I connect by SMB no problem.
If that makes sense?

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