Curious network item popping up in sidebar

Just installed a new HD in my MacBook Pro and took the opportunity to do some housecleaning by installing a fresh Snow Leopard OS rather than doing a Time Machine restore. Since the install I’ve been having an odd issue that I’ve never seen before, and it has me rather concerned.
I have an Airport Extreme with LaCie HD connected, and with an Airport Express hardwired and set up as a roaming network.
The Extreme, named “Airport Extreme”, shows up under Shared in the sidebar as it should, and connects normally to my LaCie. But on occasion I a second item shows up under Shared with the same name but spelled “airport-extreme”. I have no idea what this is or why it pops up and disappears when it does. Last time it popped up it was still there when I left the computer overnight, but was gone when I woke up the machine in the morning. It has happened several times, but I have no idea how to make it re-appear at will in order to do any investigation. Clicking on it makes a popup flash on screen for less than a second: "Do you want the application NetAuthAgent.app to accept incoming network connections?".
Not much experience with networks. Anybody know what's going on here?

I have a G-Tech drive I can plug into the Airport Extreme temporarily. I think you're right about it corresponding to waking after sleep. The phantom disk just showed up again after the LaCie had been sitting unused for a few hours. I'll switch to the G-Tech, try to reproduce the problem, and report back.
I was just reminded of something else odd that happened. I'm not wanting to branch off onto a different topic, but as this seems network related too I thought I'd mention it in case it offers another clue to the original topic. Shortly after the re-install, I was moving files between these drive and getting things back in order (not via Time Machine, just drag & drop) when I tried to drag an item from my laptop HD to the trash. I got a warning that the item would be deleted immediately, the same warning that normally shows up when deleting from a network drive. I tried many different files from my local drive with the same results... somehow my internal drive was being treated like a network drive. I re-booted the laptop and all was well, and it has not happened since.

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