Why can't I add network volumes to the sidebar? It just spits them back out?

So it appears the most useful feature of the sidebar, which appears in each and every open dialogue box, is to provide me quick access to working folders.
I work in an office which, unsurprisingly, uses a file server to store files.
Naturally it would be very convenient to drag the various network drives from the file server into my sidebar.
It appears this is just not supported. It just "spits them out" as soon as I drag it in.
Am I doing something wrong? (OSX Lion)
How can the sidebar implementation be so collossally shortsighted? Not everyone stores files on their local mac!

The servers should appear in your sidebar under "shared" whenever they are mounted.

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