Server "Connection Failed" message when starting Classic

I recently updated from OS 10.2.8 to 10.4.3. Everything made the conversion smoothly except that whenenver I now startup Classic, I get this message in a dialog box:
Connection Failed: The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try again.
I click the "OK" button, and then it repeats the process exactly 3 more times and Classic starts and runs fine. This is consistent and never varies.
I'm running on a LAN (with a bunch of Windows machines), which I need to affirmatively log on to (shared printers excepted). It seems like Classic is trying to automatically log on to some network, something it hadn't done under 10.2.8. I checked the system preferences for both Classic and Networking but can't find anything which seems relevant. I'll note that under Classic System Prefs. it states (under "Start/Stop") that it's using the system folder on my computer and not looking elsewhere.
How can I stop the nuisance?
Thanks

Phil,
You nailed it. Thank you!
I moved the Sherlock first and as I dragged it to the trash, as if it were Freddie Kruger refusing to die, it triggered the "Connection Failed" message riff. However, when I rebooted Classic, I saw that removing it alone did not eliminate the problem. So, I next removed all non-System generated (i.e., the one's in created for my apps) aliases. That did it.
I see now that the aliases that seemed to be causing the problem related to programs that I had recently moved from the startup HD to a second internal HD that I'd just installed. The "System generated" aliases all connected to programs that remained where they've always been, on the startup HD. What is confusing me is that there is no "network" that needed to be used for the non-System aliases to reach the moved programs and they're not on another "server," so don't see why that was the message I got. Additionally, normally, when an alias loses it's link to the originating program, I just get a message stating that it can't find that program. If I'd gotten the same message this time, it would have been much easier to track the problem.
Thanks for your great tip.

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