Shared disk on Airport Extreme appending path to '-1'

Hey guys,
Recently just got Sick Beard and SabNZBd+ setup to automate some occasional downloads I need to make (everything is completely legal there - don't worry) and I have it interface with my shared VERBATIM hard drive via my Airport Extreme.
Everything has been working well, but it seems occasionally (I think when the hard drive is unmounted, and then remounted) that OS X appends the path of the attached disk so it becomes 'VERBATIM-1', 'VERBATIM-2' ad infinitum, instead of just remaining 'VERBATIM'.
I have my folders all setup in Sick Beard, but it doesn't update dynamically with the unmount/remount scenario, so it remains looking for just 'VERBATIM' and I have to change the path manually, kinda defeating the purpose.
Is there a way to keep the path static?
N.
Apologies if there isn't enough info, let me know if you need more. The problem seems to reside with Airport Extreme/OS X rather than the third party software, I only added it in for detail.

Thanks for the reply,
I'm not sure I follow. Was that a workaround or a solution?
I am trying to make sure it remains only mounting as 'VERBATIM' and not with the additional characters so other applications etc can no longer find it.
This is what I see after 'Go to Folder' - '/Volumes/'...
http://i53.tinypic.com/2enaxhk.png
As you can see, 'VERBATIM-3' is the only one associated with the actual path currently, whereas the others used to be, in descending order.

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