Airport Disk Utility- where is it?

Hey gang-
I just bought an external USB drive to connect to my new Gigabit Airport Extreme, so experimenting with AirDisk for the first time. I kept seeing references to "Airport Disk Utility" in some messages, but I realize now I don't have it. I'm running Leopard 10.5.6 and the latest Airport Utility and Airport firmware. I looked in my Utilities and Applications folder and searched Spotlight as well. I ran the Airport installer disk as well when I first bought it. I definitely don't have it.
So where exactly is Airport Disk Utility supposed to come from?
Thanks!
Dave

OK, so that answers one question. I just bought a USB hard drive and have connected it to my Airport Extreme and it was not automatically mounting. Found articles in Apple Support directing me to this utility which did not exist on my computer (Macbook Pro).
So, is there a way to get this to automatically mount? I was able to manually mount it via finder/go/servers, then inputting the address as 10.0.1.1 and selecting the desired partition.
What I did with the drive was first connect it directly, then I partitioned it using default settings (Extended/Journaled, I believe) and what I'd love to see is one of the partitions automatically mount when I am connected to this network. Is that possible? I’d rather not have to do it manually every time.

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I think this article is misleading, it seems that "AirPort Disk Utility" no longer exists in 10.7 Lion (and possibly hasn't existed since 10.5).

Good luck, I've treid with this one:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4635
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HT1331 Why does this article still not indicate that Airport Disk Utility no longer exists?

ADU stopped existing after 10.6. I see this article was updated in May; that means two revisions of OSX which don't contain this utility have been announced or released at that time yet it's still wrong. It's near the top of google rankings, making this a crappy thing to do to your users who are looking for information, Apple.

Yes, you are correct - there is no longer a Airport Disk Utility. It was discontinued. That article was accurate up until 10.7 was introduced.
You cannot call "from the main window of AirPort Disk Utility enable "Show AirPort Disks in the menu bar"" a 'typo' - it is flat-out wrong, as that menu option no longer exists at all. So the instructions can not be applicable.
This could be corrected simply by adding "10.6 and earlier OSX versions" or the like to the products affected list. But leaving this entirely unusable set of unstructions up as it stands is misleading and counter-productive.

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Airport Disk Utility- where is it?

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