Unwanted automounts under a MobileMe account name

I am sitting at my desktop staring at the Finder, where I see my laptop downstairs mounted as an AFP volume with my MobileMe address ([email protected]) as the logged-in user. If I unmount it, it immediately remounts itself. I have defined no unix or OSX user with that name and I have never set up the system to do this, nor did it do this until the last couple of days.
To get the AFP connection working right I tried deleting all unix and OSX caches that I know of, both for the system and the user, but that has not helped. When logged in as a guest or as root this works properly. I do not use BackToMyMac--it is switched off on both machines--and I ruled out any wayward access from MobileMe by firewalling out the ports MobileMe uses on both computers.
Anybody have any idea what could be going on?

I uncovered the problem but I have no idea how it could have happened. Somehow the laptop's system on its own added two aliases to the username of one account, the alias containing a mobileme address and a key to enable automatically reconnecting.

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