USB stick troubles

I'm trying to get USB sticks up...just one problem: every time I plug in my USB stick, it mounts somewhere else. I set
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb vfat default 0 0
in my fstab, but the next time I plugged it in, it registered at sdc! Now, I'm no expert, and I know we're supposed to do things on our own, but this isn't working. what's the accurate fstab setting for this?
Also, when I get it right (like if I changed the above code to sdc1), and select "open in new window" in the KDE dialogue, I get an error message "Only HAL can do this." UPDATE: The same happens when I insert another medium, such as a CD.
And I've been over the HAL wiki page as well as the forum post it leads to. The post didn't really help me because the poster once had the feature working fine.
Last edited by ArchPad (2007-05-17 19:37:01)

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