Shared external hard no longer visible to other mac running 10.4

Running 10.4 on iMac G5 and connecting to mac mini running 10.6. The mac mini has a firewire connected drive that I used to mount from my iMac. Suddenly, as of a few days ago, I can no longer mount the volume. When I double click my short-cut, it prompts me for my ID & password, and then tell me "Mount failed - Could not mount volume “drive-name.”
From a Finder window I click on Network and see my mac mini listed but when I click to connect and enter my credentials (administrator on both machines) I see the mount points on the internal hard drive but external drive is no longer listed. I've tried repairing permissions on both Mac's but still not working. Any suggestions?
I found a similar post (https://discussions.apple.com/message/10136761?messageID=10136761) but it never listed a solution. Please help!
PS - I can still access the shared external drive from a Macbook Pro running 10.6.

Well BDAqua,
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that your suggestions seemed on the right track buy neither worked. On the Mac Mini, /volumes only contained two items, one for my internal hard drive and one for the external hard drive. The iMac showed only its internal drive. there were no duplicate entries with numbers appended to the names. I looked under my home directory/Library/Favorites and deleted everything in there (for both Macs). Rebooted both machines and still could not see the external drive.
The good new is that it's working now! I don't quite understand why, but here is what I did. On the iMac OS X 10.4) I opened a Finder window, looked under Networks, and saw four items listed; Library, Mac mini, Mac-Mini, and Servers. I had two entries for my Mac Mini. The first entry (Mac mini) was correct. When I tried connecting to Mac-Mini, it came up as a SMB/CIFS connection showing WORKGROUP and my ID. When I entered my password, I got the message ... The alias "Mac-Mini" could not be opened because the original item could not be found. It then offered me the choices to fix or delete. When I tried to delete, I got ... The operation could not be completed because you do not have sufficient privilages for "Mac-Mini". Hmmm.
I then enable my root account on the iMac, logged into it, and tried the same operation. This time it allowed me to delete the bogus entry for Mac-Mini. Then I then connected to the Mac mini and, lo and behold, my external drive was back! I logged into my other accounts and they all still have the bogus Mac-Mini entry but the shortcuts to the external drive are working.
I gave this long winded explanation hoping that you or someone else might UNDERSTAND what happened. I would also like to figure out how to delete the bogus Mac-Mini entries in the other accounts. Thanks for all your help!

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