How to keep a SimpleShare NAS drive mounted?

I've got a SimpleShare NAS drive on my network that I use for backups and large file storage. When I login I have an Applescript that mounts the drive for me. However, the drive does not stay mounted, it simply disappears. I can not detect a pattern in the disappearance such as always after waking from sleep.
Is there something I can do to keep it mounted? Because when it disappears my automatated backups hang waiting for it to be mounted.
Is the only solution to write an Applescript that periodically checks to see if it is mounted and if it isn't, mounts it?
1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) SimpleShare NAS

that should not make a difference since OSX just disconnects drives when you put it to sleep or whatever... its just how the system works.
You can add an apple script to your login sequence though to automatically reconnect. You can most likely use the script you use now to do that.
just add it to your login items list in config > accounts > login items...

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