Why does initial opening of the floppy or USB drive open the root of the hard drive?

[Arch Willingham]

Here is the issue:

1. I put a floppy disk in the drive of any of my FC7 machines (five of them)
2. I dbl click on the floppy disk icon (in Gnome)
3. The computer waits a few seconds and then opens up to the root the boot hard drive.
4. If I close it and then dbl click on the floppy drive icon, it reads the floppy drive.

This same thing hold true when I plug in a USB flash drive. Its not the end of the world but its hard to explain to end users.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Arch