Okay, some people ask about hald and why we hadn't yet unmasked it.
on my system with two USB devices, one camera and one stick, you plug in one before boot, start, plug the camera in, mount it, unmount it, remove it... all set so far?
Then plug it in again, and you lock hald down completly. no devices, no nothing. "yey" for stability. :-/ can't even unload my pics of case.