External drives and dmg files mount fine, but won't show on desktop

Recently purchased a new Mac Mini 2.3 ghz i5 with OSX Lion. Everything is updated, repaired permissions from the check disk utility.
Still my firewire drive, and any DMG files from software I'm looking to install are not showing up on the desktop. They mount fine, I can write to them, see them on the Finder left siderbar, share them on my intranet at home and use Back to Mac and Screen Sharing without any problems.
Anyone have an idea why this peculiar flaw is occuring? Is it a "feature" of Lion?

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