Disappearing CDROM icon

["Collin Brown" <colbrown iname com>]

I just upgraded to REDHAT 6.1; previously I was running Redhat 6.0 with
October Gnome.

Whenever I unmount my cdrom, or eject it via the desktop icon, the desktop
icon for the cdrom disappears.
To get it to reappear, I have to remount the cdrom from the command line, or
linuxconf.

Is this some new "feature"?
How can I get the CDROM icon to remain on the desktop regardless of the
state of the cdrom.

Collin