Flash Drive Icon acting funny

Hello,
I use a flash drive San Disk mini Cruzer 512, and it always showed as a removeable media. Today it came up on the finder as a folder icon with no ejection symbol, clicking on it gave me a "could not be found" error. Yet my backup utility would read the contents fine when the finder would not display them. When I pulled it of the port, I got a device removal error. I trashed the plist Finder file and did a relaunch, now the drive comes up as a hard drive! I would think this a problem. Any one out there know. A second flash drive I have works normally. Do these things wear out?
iBook G4 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I can't reproduce that behavior, so I have no idea if this will help, but you could try going to your home/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder folder, and delete the file there, and then logout or restart.

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