Loss of USB mount with recent updates

SuSE 10.1 ran along just fine for about 3 months and I had no problems with mounting a CF card for my camera using a USB Reader device. The card would get mounted just fine on a new directory (NIKON_D70S) created when the card was plugged into the reader. But this no longer happens. The card is still recognized as /dev/sde1 but it is no longer mounted. If I manually mount it, on a directory I create myself, everything still works fine but there are a lot of extra steps needed now just to get photos in and out. (I haven't dealt with the permission problems yet so a lot of mounting, erasing, etc have to be done as root) I'd like to get the automount working again. Anyone have a clue where to start looking? Thanks.