Keep losing mapped drives

Hey everyone...
Few weeks ago I got a shiny new 21" iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo, upgraded to 8 gigs RAM) and have been running into intermittent connectivity issues that are driving me crazy....
After much searching around, I found a "how to" helping me with an Automater script to mount and map some drives that are on another server here on my home network upon starting up.... Among other things storage-related, all my iTunes stuff is on this other server and I have my library set to use this mapped folder
On a pretty consistent basis, the iMac forgets these mapped drives in Finder...
This is causing issues when even trying to open iTunes as the assigned location cannot be found... or i'd be playing some music or podcast and BAM, iTunes coughs up a hairball because the computer lost/forgot the mounted drive locations.....
Any tips on what I can run/look-into? This happens both wired (DHCP addressed) to the network or connected by WiFi (Netgear N-router)... though it happens much more frequently when connected via wire.....
Only other helpful piece of information I could provide is that I did download and buy "Little Snitch", not sure if that could cause any issues or what not.....
Thanks in advance
- Stephen

What will that do?
UPDATE: Even more confused now. Now, the iMac sees my PC desktop and some other device (the name is a seemingly random string of numbers???) which shows nothing if I select it. However, the network drive does not show up under devices. BUT, even more weird is that in iTunes, the network drive does show up in Shared (I think). And even more weird than that, my AppleTV shows up now even when it's turned off. Used to be it only showed when it was powered on.
Needless to say, I am struggling to understand what appears to be random connection of devices on the LAN.

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