Duplicate Disk / iDisk Alias's

I have noticed in my volumes list in FINDER recently that my iDisk alias (the one named after me not the purple one named iDisk) is being duplicated.
If I use (in Finder) Go ---> Go To Folder ---> Volumes I see iDisk, Macintosh HD, My External drive and 2 or 3 occurrences of another iDisk alias e.g xxxxx, xxxxx 1, xxxxx 2
The first ones are alway dead links with the approriate symbol on the icon. Only the last one xxxxx 2 (or whatever) is valid. Deleteing the 2 dead links and rebooting puts the one alia name back to normal (without the numbers) but eventually the alias's start to reappear.
Any ideads how I can stop his happening.
I'm on 10.5.6 but this happened in 10.5.5 as well.
Kind Regards
NIALL 8-)

Been here, done that ...
I had this very same duplication problem really bad a few months ago. I deleted everything as you suggested. The problem started back up literally the next time I synch'd. I did the deletion thing again but this time deleted my Entourage Sync Preferences and iSync preferences and that seemed to resolve the problem for a short period (about a month). Did it all again then I installed MobileMe a few weeks later and the problem came back. Got rid of it once again and sure enough, a month later (thought it was gone), it's back.
I just went through and deleted the duplicate entries again but not the preferences. I'm going to do some test entries to see if it matters where you enter in a calendar entry, if it's started on the iPhone, Entourage, or Calendar. I doubt Calendar because I never put them into Calendar.
Any body else having this problem who could offer some insight? It would be appreciated.

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