Have you seen this?
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77716

Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I have a question and a problem here with the automounting of drives
> and media in Gnome.  Let me try and sort out what I know here.  On my
> normal user account, when I plug in a USB drive of any kind, the
> automount feature of gnome doesn't take hold.  HAL discovers it ok and
> even will build the sym links in /dev/disk/by-label but gnome won't
> pick this up and make it available.  All the volume and removable
> device options are set properly.
> 
> Now I just tried logging into gnome this morning from my root account
> and there, the device automounted and everything seemed to work
> great.  I guess there is a difference between my normal user's
> settings and root's.  Where can I find the settings in conf files or
> whatever to possibly fix this automount problem?
> 
> I'm running 2.6.30 kernel on an Arch Linux system with latest updates
> which includes Gnome 2.26 right now.
> 
> Any help or ideas?
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