No Devices Icons are showing in Finder or Desktop

I recently turned off the desktop icons by clicking the desktop and selecting 'Preferences...' from the Finder menu and then deselecting the available items.
See: http://www.cameroncooke.com/wp-images/FinderOptions.png
But now I want to turn them back on again and I have ticked all the options and they just wont re appear on the desktop. The also don't appear in the Finder anymore under 'Devices' category.
Please help.

I resolved the issue in the end.
From some strange reason the HDD icon had it Visibility flag se to true. This is an hidden
attribute on all file that basically hides that file from showing in the Finder/Desktop.
I used a program called SuperGetInfo (http://www.barebones.com/products/super/) while lets you
view hidden files and unhide them.
I have no idea how the hard drive came to having it's visibility set to false in the first place, probably a Leopard bug.

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