can't mount usb drives

[curses]

This is probably something simple and stupid, but I can't seem to mount any of my usb or "jump" drives. I managed it once by using root permissions to open /media in konqueror withing ten seconds or so. After that it is impossible to see anything. any idea what is going on here? here is the error message i get:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
EDIT: yeah. thanks SirDice. I found that page myself about five minutes after i asked for help. lol, right? thanks anyway. still doesn't seem to be working...

[SirDice]

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html

The FAQ is for Gnome but it works for KDE too, just skip the Gnome specific stuff (like gconf).