Automount problem

Am very new to arch .. and so far am enjoying the experience hopefully once am used to the arch way i would eventually replace the ubuntu on my xps. however one problem am still facing is the inability to mount usb pan drives or cdroms i followed everything here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo but nothing seems to work. .. am running kdemod could that be the problem .. when i plugin a usb device and run fdisk -l i can see the device is detected and attached to /dev/sdb but its is not mounted automatically. i would be glad if someone can put me through

u_no_hu
Today 05:15:18
Do you have hal/dbus in rc.conf?
yeah i did .. funny when i run
bash-3.2# tail -f /var/log/messages.log
i get this
Jan 15 01:56:11 arch usb 2-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and addre ss 6
Jan 15 01:56:11 arch usb 2-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 15 01:56:11 arch scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 15 01:56:16 arch scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 P MAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Jan 15 01:56:16 arch usb 2-8: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and add ress 6
and fdisk -l shows
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9726 78124063+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1 5471 43945744+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 5472 9665 33688273+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9666 9726 489951 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 1008 MB, 1008730112 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3848 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 16 3848 981056 6 FAT16
hence the usb pen drive is detected but not mounted .. i had to manually mount it by doing
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
before i could mount the drive .. it wont automount ... i would really appreciate if some one can put me through.. because am really enjoying arch and would like to install it on my main machine .. a dell xps m1330. thanks in advance

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