How to make an external drive attach on restart?

I have just added an external NAS drive to my network. I have two shares configured on the disc (one public and one private) and have mounted both of them on my desktop.
I dragged each of the network icons from the desktop onto my Lonin Items in the Account section of System Preferences. When I add the icons they are listed in the Login Items with the names of the shares and lists them as Volumes. When I do a restart the icons do not mount automatically and when I look in the Login Items the proper names are still listed but instead of Volumes they are listed as Unknown.
The account is set up as an administrator and I have added the NAS password to my keychain to take care of authentication. I even fully defined the name and path (smb://device name/share name) in the Connect To Server dialog box and added both paths to my server favorites list.
I am running 10.4.3 but also want to set up my wife's iBook which is running 10.3.9.
Any suggestions and/or help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
David

This was solved by creating an AppleScript to handle the mounting on restart.

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