How can I keep a network drive mounted all the time?

I have a Mac Mini hooked to my TV which is running Boxee. All of the videos/music is pulled from a network drive.
I have the drive set up to mount on Mac boot by putting it in my start up items. The problem I am running into is sometimes the drive will go offline or I may have to reboot it for one reason or another. When this happens the Mac Mini looses the mounted drive and I have to reboot the computer.
What I need is some kind of application that sits in the background and constantly checks to see if the drive is mounted and if it is not it mounts it again for me like it does on start up.
Any Ideas???

Cron isn't used by OS X anymore, launchd handles scheduled tasks now, but you could still use cron if you wanted to schedule a task. This is a good place to start: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001020700163714
You can definitely set up a launchd daemon, but it might be pretty complicated if you've never done it, it also may be more than you want to invest in this particular issue. Read about it here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystem Startup/Articles/LaunchOnDemandDaemons.html
I've also seen people recommend just setting an event to repeat in iCal. For the event, add an alarm, and as the alarm, tell it to run a script. Have the event repeat as often as you like, indefinitely. That, my friend, is a poor man's scheduled task solution.

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