Finder does not display my external drives as devices

When connecting my Kindle 2 to my imac (Lion), the kindle does not come up in Finder as an external device. However, I know it's there because when I pull up Disk Utility, there it is as a 3.24 GB Kindle Internal Storage Device.
As a matter of fact, none of my external drives show...I have a MyBook and anothers external hard drive connected for backups (all show in DU as well).
I checked Preferences in Finder and Hard Disks and External Disks are both checked to "Show these items on sidebar" but do not display.
What am I missing here?
Thanks,

Go to Finder "Go" menu hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences trash these files:
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