Mount and unmount network drives

Hello,
I am trying to create an automated script to first unmount the network drives and then mount them to ensure no duplicates are created. I'm not much of a scripter but i found that you can use the following command to properly mount the drive
mount "smb://username:password@server/share"
and it mounts it just fine, the issue is... I can't get the unmount portion to work.
Can anyone shed some light?
THANK YOU!!!

I just tried doing:
sudo unmount "smb://blahblahbalbh"
it throws out a syntax error stating "expected "," but found identifier. It highlighted the "unmount" portion.
I am using automator to run applescript. Any suggestions? should I be going about this another way?
@rccharles
nothing is running from the mapped drives. I am simply mounting them and then trying to unmount. They are not even open.

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Good morning guys,
Today I've a very long question....
Hope in your help....:
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Last edited by Alexbit (2010-09-23 21:29:13)

Thank you very (VERY) much!
I've follow your information and.. it work!
If can be usefull to other this is the complete script:
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