Automount of old network drive

After upgrading from tiger to leopard, every time I click the help button and try listing a help file, it tries to mount an old network volume, I tried trashing the com.apple.help* pref files but it still tries to mount the volume. I created a new user and it does the same thing. It must be a system library pref file that's causing it, any suggestions on how to stop it?

Have you tried repairing the Disk Permssions on the Hard Drive from Disk Utility under Application's also make sure your running 10.5.1

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