Openbox + Thunar + USB + Permissions

Hello,
I cannot seem to solve permission issues associated with mounting a USB key with Thunar in Openbox. First up, I am part of the storage group:
$ group daniel
lp wheel network video audio optical storage users
My ~/.xinitrc is:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
exec dbus-launch openbox-session
I've also included ck-launch-session for the automount option, but that didn't help either.
Yet even with this setup, I still see the following permissions when I insert my USB key:
$ ls -ld /dev/sbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root storage ... /dev/sdb
So at this point I'm not sure what else I can do to successfully mount my USB key. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Message Edited by Andy7504 on 03-5-2008 08:2 PM **It should be obvious that if the forum blocked a word, you're not allowed to use it. Please refrain from cursing in the future. Dale-CL
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-. Hello Seb_tokyo,
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Rather Odd things are happening to my Zen Vision:M... he

Luckily, I've managed to keep a list up for myself, could I get a response to SOME of my problems?
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