CMIS Connector - Mac OS 10.9 Finder Mounting Issue

Hi.
I have recently updated my system to MAC OS X Mavericks (10.9) and Adobe Drive to Version 5.0.1. I am using CS6.
I updated from CS5, Drive 3 and Mac OS X 10.6.
The problem is as follows:
When i connect the CMIS volume (an alfresco 3.4 community dam) with Drive 5 the volume is mounted in Mac Finder as "cmis". Instead of my custom volume mount name "MyCustomVolume". I defined the custom name in Drive as well as in Alfresco CMIS-Config. And it worked flawlessly before updating. But i need the volume to be mounted as "MyCustomVolume" and not as "cmis".
The strange thing is: If i run the terminal and have a look "~/Volumes" i can see, that there is a volume "dr-x------@  1 myusername  nogroup     0 20 Nov 15:22 MyCustomVolume" mounted. And no volume "cmis". So where does this "cmis" come from?
Needless to say, that my file linkings e.g. in InDesign documents relate to the old mount name and not to "cmis". Currently every file i open will have broken links.
And there is another issue: The "cmis" volume is "readonly" and not writeable. Using the Finder i am not able to change any of the cmis mount properties.
Actually i am wondering whether it is a Drive or a Mavericks issue.
I already tried this:
- Several Drive reinstallations, Drive Cache/Setting clearings as well as Mac OS Disk Utility permission repairs.
- Deactivated Sophos Antivir
- Uninstalled MacFuse and Tuxera NTFS
The problem is critical for me because my daily work depends on a seemless cmis integration.
So i hope for some help.
Best regards
Volker

UPDATE:
Intermediatly Adobe Drive 5.01.28 worked as it should do - But today i ran into the same issue i had before.
I haven't done anthing cruel to Adobe Drive, but suddenly i have this same strange behaviour like i described in my initial post.
The finder shows "cmis" as volume mount name BUT the Terminal/CLI shows me the correct volume name in the "/Volumes" folder - this is driving me nuts.
I already did a PRAM and SMC reset on my mac. And i deleted Adobe Drive 5 completly and reinstalled it. Same result - same problem.
The Alfresco server is running properly and i already restarted it.
The Errorlog of Adobe Drive shows these errors (repeatingly):
2014/02/04 20:29:25,189 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /Backups.backupdb 2014/02/04 20:29:25,190 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /DCIM 2014/02/04 20:29:25,227 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /.hidden 2014/02/04 20:29:25,228 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /.Spotlight-V100 2014/02/04 20:29:25,262 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /.metadata_never_index 2014/02/04 20:29:25,298 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /.metadata_never_index_unless_rootfs 2014/02/04 20:29:25,343 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /.metadata_never_index 2014/02/04 20:29:25,377 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /.metadata_never_index_unless_rootfs 2014/02/04 20:29:25,481 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /Backups.backupdb 2014/02/04 20:29:25,482 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /mach_kernel 2014/02/04 20:31:20,475 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /Sites/.localized 2014/02/04 20:31:23,130 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /Sites/.localized 2014/02/04 20:31:25,675 [ConnectionHandler-kernel] ERROR GetAssetsHandler - asset not found: /Sites/.localized ...
I don't know why Drive is looking for these files and what they are about. (Some of them seem to belong to Mac's TimeMachine, but my TM disabled!)
Need some help! Because i can't work with my server files and the Creative Suite anymore. Every server-based file i am trying to open with an Adobe Application causes an error.
Any ideas out there?

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