How to automate stacks for external devices

I have on my dock for a stack my external firewire drive and every time I boot up the computer I have to click it and wait about 5 seconds then click once more to browse it using stacks any way to bypass that?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
but there is an ominous Warning below the Summary. It basically sets the hardware so that a password (not the same as you user account password) is needed when you start up the Mac and nothing much can be done without it.
At the most basic level, if you turn off +Automatic Login+ in System Preferences Accounts pane, a login window will appear when you start up. If a different account (or a different drive) is used to start up your iMac, your user account home folder will not be accessible directly. However, the data is not encrypted in any way, so a determined hacker would be able to access your data.
If you want to encrypt your user account home folder, you can use the File Vault feature which is set up in System Preferences Security pane FileVault tab.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8727.html

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