AirPort DIsk User Accounts - SMB Access sees different files than AFP

I have two hard drives attached to my Extreme via a powered USB hub. Both drives are formatted HFS. I have multiple user accounts configured for Disk Sharing over Ethernet WAN. When I use SMB or AFP to access the same user account from an external network I see different files. Based on the space available it appears as if the Extreme has setup the SMB account on one drive and the AFP account on the other. Is anyone else experiencing this, and if so, how do I consolidate the accounts and prevent this from happening?

After some testing, here is my current theory. When your drives are mounted by the Extreme, it looks to find your user account folders on the first drive to mount. If the first drive to mount does not have your user folders, the Extreme creates a new set of user account folders on that drive. Consequently, when your drive with the user account folders finally mounts, you now have multiple sets of folders. I'm not sure why AFP or SMB accesses a different set of user folders, as I could not always recreate the same access patterns, but it appears that one protocol tends to see one set of user folders and the other protocol your other set of user folders. If I always mount the drives in the same order each time, new folders are not created and both protocols see the same sets of files.
This brings up a new twist on the question. Since I will not always be around to manually remount the drives each time the Extreme re-boots, does anyone have any theories on a workaround?
Secondarily, this means that all of your user folders need to be on one drive and any other drives mounted just become shared properties for all accounts. This doesn't seem like a very efficient use of storage space if individual users don't want a majority of their files available for everyone. Has anyone figured out how to get user accounts spread out over multiple drives?

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