How to make iTunes connect on demand to a file server?

I moved my iTunes to a volume on a ReadyNas box, the volume is iTunes and the box is NAS. The reason I did that instead of using the ReadyNas iTunes server is that it keeps my playlists working while the server approach causes them to fail. So question 1: is there some sort of playlist fixer script or something for this?
Having the library on the server works fine, I just told iTunes to select a new library and all is well, except that it won't connect to the NAS by itself. If its timed out, or I've disconnected the macbookpro (that iTUnes runs on, which I do most days to go to work) then the next time I run iTunes I get the error that it could not find the library. To fix this all I have to do is go to the finder, click on shared, click on AFP on NAS, click on the iTunes volume and then start iTunes again. The library location in preferences is iTunes:iTunes Library but it can't seem to connect to that unless I do it manually first. Any way to fix that?

I assume iTunes still has the same problem. But with Snow Leopard Apple's VPN works with a Cisco concentrator and does not have the split tunneling problem I had with Cisco's VPN app, so the problem doesn't surface anymore.

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