You could ease the process of connecting a lot if you use the following one-liner:

ssh username@server.xyz -f -N -L 10548:127.0.0.1:548 2>/dev/null & (sleep 5; open 'afp://localhost:10548/username/Documents/Office')

It will return the pid of the ssh-tunnel issued and you can kill it afterwards by entering "kill [ number returned above ]". Just be sure to have unmounted the server-partition in Finder before.
The "sleep 5" part above depends on your connection speed and you should set it accordingly.

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Thanks for the tip about using the open command and escaping the afp URL. (Couldn't get it to work myself.)

However, what you are doing requires going back into Terminal and killing the process. Doesn't pass the Grandma test. Here is what you can do so that you don't have to fiddle with Terminal:

ssh -f -L 7777:localhost:548 user@work.dyndns.org sleep 30 ; open 'afp://user@localhost:7777/user' ; exit


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