HAL not mounting removable drives after system update

I updated all packages yestarday and after reboot, some xfce4 stuff wouldn't work (which I suppose is kinda understandable since the update seems to be big). No problems with that, quickly re-configured what was causing trouble.
HAL isn't working at all now though. I can mount usb disks manually, but nothing happens when I insert them... I followed many HAL troubleshooting instructions in the Wiki and even in these forums, but with no success.
Here's my hal.conf (to which I had to re-add the last lines because they were gone after the update. The file was apparently back to it's default values.)
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>


<policy user="hal">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
</policy>
<policy user="root">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
</policy>

<policy context="default">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" />
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager"/>
</policy>

<policy at_console="true">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan"/>
</policy>

<policy user="root">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan"/>
</policy>
<policy group="power">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
</policy>
<policy group="storage">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
</policy>
</busconfig>

Thanks. I've read that somewhere, didn't really take it seriously. Apparently an alternative is udisks. Can anyone give me some tips to make it work? My googling isn't very effective today. Thanks!

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