USB Drive Sharing with Airport Extreme Problems

We have a airport extreme with a usb disk attached and shared. We also have 2 vista systems and 1 xp system accessing the usb drive. In the airport extreme utility, file sharing is enabled with a device password. We map a drive to the usb drive and enter the username like such:
local pc-name\address of the airport extreme
and password is the airport extreme password. This will allow us to view and modify the contents of the usb drive but when we log out of any of the windoze systems, we are again prompted to enter username and password for the mapped drive. This is not the way it was designed, right? We also, in the map drive dialog box, select "reconnect at logon" and connect using a different name/credentials and still asked for the username and password when logging back into the windoze systems. We also tried enabling guest access on the airport utility and this will allow only 1 connection which will not work as we have 3 systems that need to access this drive. We also went 1 step further and reset the airport extreme in the event that we made some configuration mistake somewhere and this still does not work. We should be able to enter the username and password once and only once, right?

No one has any ideas about this?

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