Another useful notion is to use udev to automount flash drives (or external usb harddrives)  to a specified location based on serial number.  I found a nice overview on the web a few weeks ago, but I didn't bookmark it and just kept notes of what steps I took.  I can either give an overview or dig up the url if anyone likes.  It's damn useful and fairly painless. 

This is fairly useful for doing backups to external that want the backup disk at the same mount point, for example.

Now I just need to figure out how to tell KDE not to ask me what to do with these particular devices that I have udev rules for so I don't need to click cancel / do nothing every time.

~daid