mounted partitions won't stay mounted

Hi all. We run a dual boot Suse 10.0 / WinXP machine. It has two
drives, one with the OSs and a couple partitions, and the other with
six partitions. I created these 32 gig fat32 partitions to hold data
accessible from either windows or linux. I mounted them under the
/windows/ directory, which exists as a result of being dual boot. This
has worked well on several dual boot machines for a few years.

fdisk shows:
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Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 4138 33238453+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 4139 24792 165903255 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 4139 8276 33238453+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb6 8277 12414 33238453+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb7 12415 16552 33238453+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb8 16553 20690 33238453+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb9 20691 24792 32949283+ b W95 FAT32
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Now on one machine, when I mount the partitions, I can then see them.

mount /dev/sdb1 /windows/G
mount /dev/sdb5 /windows/H
mount /dev/sdb6 /windows/I
mount /dev/sdb7 /windows/J
mount /dev/sdb8 /windows/K
mount /dev/sdb9 /windows/L

ls L shows the contents of that partition and all is well.

If I log out and reboot the machine, the partitions are no longer seen.

ls L shows:
.. ..

Why are the partition mountings not surviving a reboot and relogin?
We are not running XP between boots.

Many thanks,
Jim

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