AppleScript to change mounted network drive icon?

Howdy,
I have 3 networked Windows 2003 drives that I use everyday for my work. Now OS X networking is a bit iffy, and the way it maps drives is a bit weak compared to windows... in the way you have to remap the drive everytime you login and everytime after the machine sleeps!
Well I have a AppleScript that is in my login items and runs every login to map these drives. I also have SleepWatcher installed, and it runs the same script after the lappy wakes up... it maps them fine and all is good (although I hope one day Apple fix it so that the drives stays mapped permantely like Windows!).
Well I have one problem, I apply my own icon to these mapped drives, and when they are mapped after login/wake sometimes all the icons keep this new icon, or other times they go to a standard folder icon? Its very random, and it happens at least 1 in 2 logins, and its also random what drive it gives the dud icons too!
So I think the best way to get round this would be to add some applescript to my existing script that will tell the drive to use the new icon. Can this be done in AppleScript? Can I add to my existing script a new line that says apply "x" icon to "x" mapped drive?
Any applescript genius's out there who know this, you help will be appreciated!
ta
Steve M

Doubtful that you'll do it in one line, but there are approaches.
One is to get AS to open the get info window for the the icon you want to customize AND the get info window for a folder with the custom icon you want to use, then paste one to the other (with AS). This is straightforward if you do it manually, and I once made it happen with AS but found it so cumbersome that I never really used it.
Another approach is a "do shell script", using commands from some brief software called osxutils that can be downloaded for free. You should see thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1105260&tstart=50 in these discussions. This may (or may not) do the job for you.

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