External Drives Keep Getting Renamed

My LaCie drive has a famously short USB cord, so if I move my laptop, the jack sometimes yanks out, causing everything that was using the drive to halt mid-operation.
What's more obnoxious: when I plug the drive back in, the drive's name is unchanged (say, 'XYZ'), but the OS treats it as a drive named 'XYZ 1'. Every program that uses the drive now has to be reconfigured to look in a path beginning with XYZ 1/... instead of XYZ/.... I think restarting fixes this, but then I have to re-re-configure...and who likes restarting, anyway?
Is there a way to force the OS to drop the ' 1' suffix from the drive without restarting?

The good news is that I found a long-forgotten partial duplicate of my iTunes folder in /Volumes...dunno how it got there, but trashing it freed up 4GB of space! Huzzah!
The bad news is that there are no non-aliases in this folder. Everything here is an alias, with both XYZ and XYZ 1 present.

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