Time Capsule Drive not showing up on desktop anymore

Hi, every hour when Time Machine would begin backing up data to my Time Capsule, the drive would always show up on my desktop and then disappear when it was finished. Just recently the drive stopped showing up on my desktop, Time Machine still backs up to my Time Capsule. The drive shows up in the finder sidebar. Any help is greatly appreciated

My Time Capsule shows up on my drive but I can't do anything with it. This is in Snow Leopard even after today's 10.6.2 update.
All I get is this message "The alias “TIME CAPSULE” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found."
I then have three options - Delete Alias - which gives me "The item “TIME CAPSULE” can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted."
Or - Fix Alias - which gives me a chance to navigate to the TC but it's all greyed out.
Or - Okay - which it plainly isn't!
I really hoped Apple would fix this. I have another Mac running Leopard and it mounts Time Capsule on my desktop and all it's files are accessible just like any other external drive - exactly how I want it!
cheers
rich

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