Puzzling problem mounting some partitions from drive connected via airport

I have an external drive with three partitions connected to my airport. Under Tiger, the mounting process for all those partitions was seamless and never failed. As soon as I upgraded to Leopard, however, everything fell apart. Now I can't mount two of the three partitions at all.
When the external drive is connected directly to my MacBook Pro, each partition mounts routinely. When I connect it via my Airport Extreme, the finder window shows that I am connected; but when I attempt to access the partitions on the drive, I get this error message: 'The operation cannot be completed because the original item cannot be found.' I get the same error message for each of the first two partitions on the drive and can mount only the last partition.
When I attempt to mount the partitions manually via the Go menu in the finder, I get essentially the same result: error messages for the first two partitions saying that they cannot be mounted and a normal mounting of the third partition.
Any ideas or clues as to what is actually happening here would be most appreciated. It's very frustrating to have lost access to my backup drive purely by upgrading to Leopard and not find any obvious way to regain it.

Thanks, but I have no problem accessing the drive. All I have to do is plug it directly into my laptop using either USD or Firewire. The problem is with accessing it via Airport so I can run my normal backup routine as I did under Tiger without first a lot of fiddling with cables. After all, the result of installing Leopard shouldn't have been to decrease functionality, should it?
With a direct connection, everything functions normally. With an Airport connection, nothing functions. None of the partitions show up on the desk top, none show up when I run disk utility, and -- as explained before -- I cannot even mount two of the three partitions manually. I've also noticed now that, when I do mount the one partition that will mount, it freezes the finder when I try to unmount it. After that I have to relaunch the finder in order to regain functionality.
It seems pretty obvious that the whole mess is a function of Leopard and Airport somehow, but I'm just at a loss to narrow the problem down any further.

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