Can't see 2 disks icons on the desktop

Hi!
I have an external HD called loumel that I can't see on my desktop anymore when I plug it in.
I also have a new Palm LifeDrive that does not show up on the desktop when in drive mode.
I have tried a few of the tricks that Francine discusses in here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=865694&tstart=0
but it does not seem to work, although I am not familier with Terminal or Scripts.
Thanks.
Louis

Yes, it is the Go->Go to Folder... that I am talking about. It should work even without the folder:
/Volumes/loumel/
and the drive's root window would open, IF the problem is the one where the invisible bit is set. If there is something else that is wrong then it won't work. The error in the Applescript about "NSReceiverEvaluationError" is what you get if you run the script when the drive is not mounted.
If you updated to 10.4.9 that could be the source of the problem. A number of people who updated their systems discovered the system was no longer seeing their external drives after the update.
Francine
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