Description of Problem:

The new nautilus 2.6 has a very irritating habit
of assuming that I want all mounted partitions to
appear on my desktop.  There doesn't seem to be a
way to turn this off.  I believe there should be
an obvious method of hiding these icons.

For example, I have /dev/hda7 mounted at /media. 
I know that it's there at /media...it's mounted at
boot, and it's been mounted at boot for the past 5
years.  Ideally it acts transparently, looking
just like the rest of the filesystem.  However, in
the new nautilus there seems to be no way to get
rid of the little icon that pops up on my desktop
called that says "media".  In some cases this is
great (like when I plug my mp3 player in and want
to switch up the playlist), however in some cases
it's most definitely not wanted.  If there is a
way to keep the icon from showing up, it's not
obvious enough as I've been looking for the past 2
days.

See this thread for a further explanation:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2002-November/msg00054.html

I apologize if this is a duplicate, but a quick
scan of open bugs didn't reveal what I was looking
for.