Ok I don't know if anyone else has a problem like this or if they know how to fix it.
I'm using what was once a Dell it now has a Albatron Mother board in it and has moved over to a new case. I'm running Ubuntu linux version 5.04 and it is up to date. when I plug in my hard drive mp3 player it recognizes it as a usb mass storage device, this is good. udev then creates a link on my desktop for me also good, and a folder in my /media directory also good. The problem is that the folder it creates has only dr-x------ permissions or 0500. This means that while I can copy stuff off of my MP3 player I can't put anything on it. I also have a digital camera and a 80gb maxtor onetouch removable hd both of witch are mass storage devices and both work fine I can copy stuff onto and off of those deivces. If I plug my mp3 player into a windows box it will work and I have reformatted it this way. I have cheaked the /etc/udev/udev.conf and /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions files and neither have settings that sould generate a folder with the 0500 permissions. This is my system log file for when my drive is mounted:
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Aug 10 09:21:36 localhost kernel: usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
Aug 10 09:21:36 localhost kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug 10 09:21:36 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 9
Aug 10 09:21:36 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Aug 10 09:21:37 localhost usb.agent[10644]: usb-storage: already loaded
Aug 10 09:21:41 localhost kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK4004GAH Rev: JC00
Aug 10 09:21:41 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Aug 10 09:21:41 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
Aug 10 09:21:41 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 10 09:21:41 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
Aug 10 09:21:41 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost scsi.agent[10692]: sd_mod: loaded sucessfully
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost udev[10703]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 27 applied, 'sda' becomes '%k'
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost udev[10703]: creating device node '/dev/sda'
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost udev[10759]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 27 applied, 'sda1' becomes '%k'
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost udev[10759]: creating device node '/dev/sda1'
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost kernel: NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.
Aug 10 09:21:42 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
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Please I really need help on this one

Having the same problem on a Debian Etch machine
Did you ever solve this?

Thanks.