does not put an icon on desktop or automount usb media

When inserting usb media, an icon does not appear on the gnome desktop

When inserting usb media, an icon does not appear on the gnome desktop. Also it does not automount it either. When running tail -f /var/log/messages it does show the device being plugged in and unplugged. I am using Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Stable release with stock kernel.

tail -f /var/log/messages output::

Apr 13 10:18:57 localhost kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Apr 13 10:18:57 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 251905 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB)
Apr 13 10:18:57 localhost kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Apr 13 10:18:57 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Apr 13 10:18:57 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Apr 13 10:18:57 localhost scsi.agent[19294]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0
Apr 13 10:19:26 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 13

also once this media is plugged in and cd /media/usbdisk which is /dev/sda1 it does not get automounted.