It involved a little trickery, but I have now successfully mounted and shared my 3 drives under a single drive letter. My non-network aware ripping program on WinXP is completely "tricked", and will correctly save it's output to whichever of the 3 drives I choose now.
The secret is in how the drives are mounted, and where. Here's the Samba-autostart settings that did the trick:
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#Mount any shared drives here:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /movies
mkdir /movies/disk2
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /movies/disk2
mkdir /movies/disk3
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /movies/disk3
#Start the Samba-TNG server
samba-start
Xdialog --title " " --infobox "Samba-TNG started" 0 0 2000
What I end up seeing is over 3TB of data mapped to a single drive letter on a 32bit WinXP. The 1.5TB drive and 2nd 1TB drive map perfectly under pseudo-directories "disk2" and "disk3", and Windows only sees the full size of disk1 as 1TB.
On to the next challenge now!