Changing Locations locks up PB when network drives are mounted

I have a bunch of different network locations and frequently bounce from one to the other (going to/from different offices). If I have a network drive mounted at, say, "home", then close the powerbook lid, go to an office, open it and switch to the "office" location, THEN relalize I forgot to unmount the drive and try to do so, I get a spinning beachball for several minutes. Anyone know a trick or a way around this. Is there some setting that shortens the timeout for disconnected drives? Thanks.
PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Hi Geoffrey,
This won't be much help, but I'm having the exact same issue. I'm mounting AFP shares from a ReadyNAS, but I'm not using Bonjour Mounter. And this happens whether I script the volumes to mount, or if I mount them manually. For whatever reason, they dismount when I switch users, lock the screen, etc.
Have you tried mounting non-ReadyNAS volumes to see if the same issue occurs?  I'm curious.
Hope someone replies that can help. :-)

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