Help understanding mounting usb

[Jimmie Houchin]

Hello,

I have an iAudio G3 mp3 player. I plugged it into my Breezy laptop and 
an icon pops up in the "computer" nautilus window which says, COWON 
iAUDIO G3. Looks good. But it won't mount. I get this error.

mount: can't find /dev/sda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

So I create a mount point in fstab pointing to /media/usb1

Then I get an error telling me that only root can mount. Ugh.

The problem also is that when I mount as root in a terminal I don't get 
a browsable filesystem as I would like, but rather 3 directories 001, 
002,003 and a file devices.

If I set up fstab to open on /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda I am able to 
mount and navigate the filesystem successfully. But then I have in the 
"computer" nautilus window with both the COWON iAUDIO G3 icon and also 
an icon for the usb1 drive.

Now that is a livable condition. But it would be nice if the COWON 
iAUDIO G3 icon mounted correctly and was the icon which represented this 
device rather than the created one of the usb1 to circumvent the failure 
of the other to operate as anticipated.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Jimmie