Nevermind, I solved and forgot to post here. I had to delete /media/.hal-mtab which got spurious stuff for some possible bug on hal mouting.
Sorry for not adding this update sooner. -- desktop/nautilus right-click umount problem https://launchpad.net/bugs/36252 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs