Upgraded to Leopard, Now Constantly Dropping Shared Drive

Just bought Leopard and upgraded. Have had a 1000-Gig hard disk set up for shared access through my Airport Extreme. Until now, all has been well. But with the Leopard upgrade, my Mac is constantly dropping the connection with the hard drive.
Any ideas?
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