Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when
mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which houses Windows OS).  ntfs-3g is
installed, but is not being used for some reason.  

This install started as a "standard system" and then I installed
gnome-desktop-environment, so perhaps something got missed that is
installed/configured during a normal installation.

Any tips on how to fix this?

My user is a member of the fuse group.

-Rob