I tried some of the fixes for HAL errors but still can't access any CD, HD, nor floppy from the KDE desktop.
The really strange part to me is a can't access Music-CD's from the desktop but the media players can play the songs just fine.

FYI: I'm running a HD Install

My remaining bugs are:

HAL errors, Permission Errors, or KDE can't locate the devices (drives) from the desktop shortcuts. For example I can create a Boot floppy set in Konsole, but the KDE shortcut can't locate the floppy where it's been setup as.

The fix I tried was "HAL, fstab, management of drives posting by JohnnyH on Fri Fen 16, 2007

It had me edit /usr/sbin/rebuildfstab and /etc/init.d/knoppix-hd-autoconfig

All these changes really did is turn off DMA for all my drives.