Problem with Computer

[Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>]

Hello,

I have FC3 installed and have an odd behavior with nautilus's volume 
handling.
It seems that sometimes nautilus decides not to put the icons of my data 
partitions (I have 2 fat partitions mounted in /mnt with the users flag 
and read/writable by all) on the desktop, but instead keeps them in the 
Computer folder with odd names (like the size of the partition). Note 
that when the cdrom is mounted is shows up on the desktop as well.
And then, sometime, usually long while after I logged in, nautilus will 
crash or something like that (I hardly shut down my machine, so it could 
be after a few days, but sometimes less), and then the devices will show 
up on the desktop with the names of thier mountpoint.

I don't really care what behavior is picked, I would just like it to 
stay consistant. I would of filed a bug report but I don't know if this 
is a problem with nautilus, gnome-vfs, gnome-volume-manager, or 
something else entierly.

Also, how does nautilus/gnomevfs determine if a partition goes on the 
desktop or not?

And last, where does nautilus/gnomevfs keep the information on my custom 
  mounts (like to an FTP server)?

Thank you
Daniel Brodie