*sigh* I guess I'm going mobile (Linux-compatible smartphones?)

[Michael ODonnell]

> When I plug that into my Linux box, it automounts, but there
> is nothing there.  Plugging into my work Win7, the iPhone also
> automounts, but I get the directory with any photos taken by
> the iPhone. [...] A conspiracy?

My phone presents multiple USB mass-storage devices so it's
possible yours does, too, but your various systems are choosing
different devices to mount.  Maybe try something like 'fdisk -l'
to see what's presented.  In my case I then used dosfslabel to
name the internal and external filesystems in my DroidX2 and
then added lines like these to my fstab:

  LABEL=DROIDINT /mnt/DROIDINT vfat defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0
  LABEL=DROIDEXT /mnt/DROIDEXT vfat defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0