Mounted local NFS drives take down Finder after move out of network

Hello,
This is a basic scenario that happens to me often. At home, I mount several NFS drives from my linux server. They work fine. If i close my MBP, don't shutdown, and take it with me to a new location outside of my local network, I still see my NFS drives mounted. After a while, I will get a prompt saying that those drives are no longer available, or some such language.
However, if I try and unmount them from the finder or try and access those drives, the is Finder done for, and all computer functions for that matter, like volume, brightness.
I have left it that way for up a half-hour before hard re-starting.
I know I should unmount the drives before I take the computer with me, but honestly, I will continue to forget.
Is there a way to avoid this, like setting a timeout of a 1 minute or so, if the drive is not available?
Thanks for your time,
Chuck
MBP Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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