Recently two significant usability bugs were fixed with simple one-liners in the code:

372 Storage media applet doesn't show usb stick at session startup
385 Unmounted removable device icons do not appear on the desktop

Both were resolved in GIT hash 43bb5b9.

Along with the patch for bug report 392, "Device Icon Placement," sanity has been restored to device icons.

Thank you everybody!

Darrell