Previous Airdisk won't mount on MB via USB.

Hello-
I have a Lacie 500GB HD that I was previously using with my AEBS. Due to a new setup requirement, I will have to use the hard drive with my MacBook. Unfortunately, My MacBook doesn't seem to mount the drive. I tried to access the drive through terminal at /Volumes/ but was told that I didn't have access to the drive. I ran some commands I found online (chown). I can now access the drive through terminal and can see the disk in Disk Utility. I can repair the disk but unfortunately, when I try to repair Disk Permissions, I get this error:
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
How can I have finder mount the drive so I can use it normally?

Thank You for the response James.
I actually have 10.5.4 installed and after correcting the permissions in terminal can now repair the permissions in Disk Utility. The Volume shows up properly in in /Volumes and I can read and write to the drive. It simply is not visible in finder or on the desktop. I feel that I am massively close. I have been scouring the net for posts similar to my current problem, which I guess no longer has anything to do with the AEBS, and can find a few who have hard drives that mount properly that are not visible in Finder. Unfortunately, none of the solutions presented to these people seems to work for my situation.

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