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Installing podsleuth and adding user haldaemon to group plugdev resolved the issue for me.
As a point of comparison, a laptop I own had a similar issue, and installing podsleuth fixed things. This laptop was originally installed with Edgy, which was then upgraded to Feisty (on Feisty release) then Gutsy on release, then finally to Hardy Beta recently. User and group definitions were not touched from then on.
Another laptop I own was installed from scratch with Hardy Beta then upgraded to the latest updates. I found the same issue as this one, where Banshee didn't see my iPod. I installed podsleuth, and that didn't fix things (in fact, running podsleuth would complain that the method it was looking for in HAL wasn't found).
However, doing a compare of user and group definitions between the two machines had haldaemon as a member of plugdev, floppy, and cdrom on the dist-upgraded machine; haldaemon on the new machine didn't have such memberships. Adding haldaemon to plugdev then solved it for me.