Multi copies of ext drive show up

I have an external Lacie hard drive that I often connect to my PowerBook. The problem (more like and annoyance) is that when I use a program like FinderPop or an FTP program, I see multiple instances of the Lacie disk, even when it is not connected to the computer. I'll see LaCie Disk, LaCie Disk 1, LaCie Disk 2, ... LaCie Disk 25. Can anything be done to remedy this?
Thanks

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter /Volumes/ as the folder's path, and drag all of the duplicates out of that folder. To stop them from appearing, shut down all of those programs prior to disconnecting the drive.
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