I Cannot Use My Mac Until I Connect To Our Server

I posted this in the "Using OsX" forum also.
Hello All,
This is a problem I have had for some time now and I posted it earlier in the forum and am just wondering if someone might now have an answer.
After a restart I cannot access or do anything until I double click an alias I made of a folder on our Windows 2003 server (I then have to enter my password).
If I double click on any icons or items in the dock before I do this, I get a white window in the center of my screen with nothing in it that looks like it might be the same size as the window I get when I normally connect to our server, then I have to force quit the Finder.
I have done all of the regular maintenence proceedures, permission repairs, DiskWarrior etc, and I still have this problem.
It is a slight annoyance I can deal with, but other people sometimes use this machine and if they have to restart it, it causes mild panic.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,
David

After trying some different things, I discovered that if I remove one particular network folder alias from the Preview Pane, the problem goes away. I still have four more network folder aliases from the very same server in the Preview Pane.
My problem is, I use that particular alias more than just about anything else on the machine and this has worked flawlessly since March of 2004.
Maybe this will shed some light on my problem.
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