OS X keeps looking for missing network drive

Hi there,
I notice, I am not the first to ask the question, but is has not yet been answered and I'm a bit puzzled. I am using OS X 10.7 by now and ever since OS 10.6 I have noticed that - sometimes - finder seems to be looking for a network drive (a former time capsule) that is no longer mounted and available. Every once in a while I get the message that the drive "name" cannot be found.
Where can I check to get rid of any references to that old drive? It must be mapped somehwere, alas, I don't know where.
It is not in the startup items, I've checked there and there is no file sharing activated.
Thanks in advance, Alex.

I think this solved my problem, after having checked Console:
http://paikialog.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/how-i-fixed-my-mac-os-x-lion-slowness- issue/
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/RootPartitionName

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