System reboot oddity

[KenDRhyD]

I have an external drive that I use to hold my Parallels virtual machines, so naturally I named the file system on that drive "Parallels". This works fine, except when I need a reboot. Immediately after a fresh reboot when I open Parallels it indicates that it cannot find any of my VMs! A quick check shows that /Volumes/Parallels is an empty folder and that the drive is mounted on /Volumes/Parallels-1, which explains why they cannot be found. I dismount the drive, remove the empty folder, remount the drive and all is well. Oddly, I have another external drive and that problem does not seem to occur for that drive.

I suspect that something is touching the path /Volumes/Parallels before the drive has time to be mounted, but I cannot figure out what that is, and why it is only happening for that one external drive.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can track down what is causing this empty folder to get created each time I reboot? I had thought it might be the attempts to tell Spotlight to ignore that drive, but I did that for both external drives, and consistently the Parallels one is the only bad mount!