Home Directory on External Disk has stopped being mounted as Home Director

Title says it all....
Set up external RAID mirror to be used as Home Directory for User "David". The Home Directory used to mount as Home drive but doesn't anymore. When I turn on I need to first login with root user then:
1. Open Disk Manager and Unmount disk (/Volumes/David on RAID mirror as a safety precaution for step 2)
2. Open Terminal:
cd /Volumes
rm -rf David (this deletes /Volumes/David which is created on startup disk)
3. Re-mount RAID mirror
4. Log out and Login as David
If I do not take this action when I want to login a freshly created /Volumes/David is created on the startup drive.
Advice on resolving please

I have already checked the RAID volume and it looks healthy.
I have had a look in the system.log and the following appears to be relevant to the problem however I would not know how to make a full diagnosis and resolve:
Dec 22 00:34:56 kutching SystemStarter[44]: The following StartupItems failed to start properly:
Dec 22 00:34:56 kutching SystemStarter[44]: /Library/StartupItems/tap
Dec 22 00:34:56 kutching SystemStarter[44]: - execution of Startup script failed
Dec 22 00:34:56 kutching SystemStarter[44]: /Library/StartupItems/tun
Dec 22 00:34:56 kutching SystemStarter[44]: - execution of Startup script failed
Dec 22 00:34:56 kutching system_profiler[205]: CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Volumes/David/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
Going to try what is suggested here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7175&start=0
to correct home perms.
Any other suggestions ?

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