As you said, 10.1 can access appletalk shares just fine. Also there is a patch for netatalk to use the IP based version of Appletalk which all versions of OS X can connect to (look for netatalk+asun, actually I think this has been patched into the main tree since 1.5). Also, OSX has no problems connecting to recent versions of netatalk (I use 1.5pre8). Anyway, using the smb mounter is probably easier in this case. I was just explaining what netatalk is.

-Mike