Floppy icon

I've been testing SuSE 8.0 - not bad, but a few rough edges. In the test machine the floppy drive turned out to be faulty, so it didn't put a floppy icon on the desktop. When I added one (right-click on desktop, Create New -> Floppy device) using the same parameters as on my 7.3 install (device /dev/fd0), it doesn't seem to work. Clicking on the icon opens a browser trying to go to RealNames. Mounting via the console give the message that /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. The floppy, however, does work OK in Windows on the same machine. The user is a member of the disk group. Any suggestions on what (probably obvious) thing I have missed? Kevin