USB MP3 player no longer gets detected

Hi all, I have a problem with my iAudio MP3 player which used to be detected and worked just fine on my SuSE 9.2 system. For some reason it no longer gets mounted, /var/log/messages contains some info about the device when it is connected but there is no mention of a device name (eg. sda) so I can't even mount it manually. It still seems to work ok under windows so I'm assuming that there is some kind of configuration corruption. Any ideas would be gratefully received. Cheers, James. P.S. Does anyone know why I don't receive my own messages when I post to the list, it would be convenient to have some kind of confirmation that my messages have been received by someone.