Can't access external HD on WRT610N

Question

I recently bought the WRT610N wireless router and updated the firmware on it to version 1.00.02 B10. I also have a 500GB WD Caviar Green hard drive in a Koutech EEC320 external enclosure. I wanted to be able to hook up my HD in a network server-like configuration through the USB port on the router.
The first time I hooked it up, everything worked mostly fine: I could access the Storage tab on the online router utility, set up shares and stuff. The problem was that I couldn't actually give admin rights to access the shares that I set up on the HD, so I couldn't change files or anything. I would try to set up admin privileges in the share settings, but they would never show up in the share summaries. I even tried changing the name of the 'Default' share that randomly popped up only once, but this caused the group privileges to disappear from it, and the 'Default' share to vanish (although the utility still reserves the name for it, meaning I can't make another Default).
I reset the router to try to get the Default share back, but now every time I try to access the Storage tab in the router utility, I get a blank screen, so I can't recreate any shares on my HD. Plus, every tab I try to access after that end up in a blank screen until I restart my web browser, where everything is fine until I try to access Storage again. This occurs even after resetting the router several times, and even reinstalling the firmware once.
Any ideas on how to fix this so I can access and change the files on my HD through my network?
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Answer 1

Ok, while none of those suggestions seemed to have an effect on the problem (makes sense: I could access the main router page just fine; only the Disk section was giving me problems), I did try using a different HD and enclosure which worked perfectly with the router page, with Disk specs and shares showing up and everything. That showed that the router was in normal working order; so I thought that maybe the issue was with my original HD/enclosure. But upon hooking it up by USB to access badly needed files, I noticed the old ".storage_info" file and "public" folder on the drive, which were relics of when I first hooked it up to my router. My theory is that by resetting the router and hooking up the HD (with settings that the router had no recollection of ever creating), it got confused and just semi-crashed whenever I hooked up the HD.
Following that idea, I deleted those files and wiped them over, and hooked up the drive to the router, and sure enough, everything on the Disk page pops up just fine...almost. While I can see the drive just fine now, "Default" hasn't popped back up yet. And any other share I create still can't hold on to any permissions (I expect this to be a firmware issue, since it happened on the other drive too). I suspect this has to do more with my enclosure than the router though; I have four card reader 'drives' on my enclosure that show up ahead of the actual HD (shows up on the router page as Disk 2), so they probably have "Default" somewhere among them. I will probably take my HD out of its enclosure and hook it up by itself to set "Default" on it first before putting it back in the enclosure.
Of course, this all would have been easier if I was able to permanently set permissions on any created shares. Something for Linksys to update on the next version of firmware? Hopefully it is that easy.