Issues with brand new mac-mini, NAS, transmission, external HD's

Hi,
I am totally new to mac, got my first mac mini about 2 weeks ago, what a lovely shiny box of joy it seemed at the beginning.
I have the 2GHz model, upgraded to 2GB ram (by the apple store tech's) I have a 250GB 2.5 usb powered drive connected to it to be solely used for Time machine. I also have 2 other 250GB drives, one for Music and one for video.
as the 250GB drives are not so big I bought a 'my book' 500GB firewire WD drive and used the firewire connection to connect this to the mac, at this point it all still seems fine.... Realising that I'm pretty quickly going to have space limitations with these small sizes I bought a 1TB NAS by Lacie, this ethernet disk is connected only to the router (thompson speedtouch) and I've setup the automatic login so I can see a desktop icon for the open share.
Applications which are installed are media-link (to use to link to PS3) quicksilver (nice little utility), transmission and the ethernet agent installed for the lacie NAS drive.
in the last week, its like I cannot make transfers to the Lacie, 130GB was to take 25 hours, but would dip out after a couple, yes I set the computer to not sleep, connection dips out even still.
Transmission has crashed a couple of times, when pointing to foder on the NAS, the app could take up to 2 minutes to load and all transfers were stuck on paused, resume wouldnt work, then crash, restart, verify local data, start, dip out, crash.... and on and on.....
Anyone have similar gear working well? or same gear working in the same faulty way?
Please help and be gentle, I'm only new

oh...something more to add, when I had transmission setup to write directly to the NAS, it would write to a folder called 'incomplete'
Now I have removed any transmission transfers and reassigned the folders transmission shouild point to as being the WD mybook on firewire, it seems to be working so far and application not as slow as wioth the NAS, however the NAS will not let me delete this junk folder full of 'incomplete' files.
so the biggest issue it seems I am facing is with the NAS.
thanks.

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