OK,  This is getting really annoying...

Anybody have a problem like this?

I have a 3494 tape library.  Last night I had two drives go down (no idea why).
I couldn't delete them from ADSM because it thought they were still in use.  I
un-mounted the tapes manually (ADSM didn't show the mounts), brought down ADSM
and still couldn't fix the problem.  I ran cfgmgr (after deleting the drives I
could and killing the lmcpd demon).  Now I had 2 instances of lmcpd!!  I still
couldn't delete the two drives because smitty said they were in use (a query of
the drive showed them as available).  So I IPL'd the node.  When it came back up
the drives showed as available but I now had 2 instances of LMCPD...  I deleted
the drives, killed LMCPD and re-ran cfgmgr 3 times.  To no avail.  I left it for
a bit to put out another fire and returned 45 minutes later and still had 2
demons.  I tried the kill process again, nothing.  Then I called AIX support.
When I finally got a technician, I ran ps-ef again and low and behold, only 1
lmcpd.  Everything worked again...  I DID NOTHING!!  That is the second time
this has happened.  I try everything a bunch of times, give up, call AIX and it
miraculously fixes itself with no intervention.  I bet if I hadn't called, I
would still have a problem!!

Does anybody else have any problems with Atape or atldd?(atldd version 3.2.1.0
and Atape ver 4.1.7.0)  But I have had this problem with earlier releases as
well...

Give me some hints before I pull out all my hair!!

Scott