User mounting / unmounting works only to an extent

I'm running the latest available gnome, dbus and hal. When I try to unmount a flash drive from a program, which was previously mounted automatically by gnome-volume-manager, I get and access denied error from dbus:
unmount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_F398_7C6F: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Unmount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
Can I just add myself to some group or I need to play with hal/dbus config files?
edit:
Ok, a more simple example: in gnome I put in a cd, and when I click Eject, I see that only root can do that - but I wanna be able to do that as well.
umount: only root can unmount /dev/hdb from /media/cdrom
eject: unmount of `/media/cdrom' failed
Please help.

I don't have an entry for the flash drive, I tried with it and it gave me some other errors...
I also had a big problem of not being able to use my cdrw, which i posted about but unfortunately no one seems to have encountered a similar situation.
My primary reason for trying Arch is that I need some development packages to be always fresh, but I've spent a couple of days just dealing with these basic stuff which i never had a problem with before and setting up some other things and I didn't get an impression that I gained a lot. So i've just installed fedora 5 test 3. Perhaps i'll return to arch some other time.
Thanks for your help anyway...

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