Look for nautilus updates and anything involving gnome as well. Maybe just dumb luck but if you update the file browser (provided their are updates out there) then maybe it will redo how it reads the drive channels and fix itself. You might also try updating the kernel, but that seems unrelated.  Still I have seen weird stuff work before.  Now if you want to solve WHY it is doing that you could go to the source (sorry for the pun - well maybe not that sorry) and hit the dev hackers at gnome.org.  They are always looking for a list to support a hacker, well donate $10 bucks to one that can answer this question.

You help out FOSS dev thru Gnome
You find out why your install went wacky
You make contacts in the FOSS community

Give it a whirl who knows.

On Oct 1, 2009 1:25 PM, "Mark Jarvis" <m.jarvis@cox.net> wrote: