USB Problems After Successful Initial Setup

[Chuck Cleland]

Hi All:
  I recently installed FC3 on a desktop with a USB keyboard, mouse, and 
drive attached.  The USB drive is formated with the vfat file system and 
FC3 is installed on one of two internal IDE drives (WinXP Pro on the 
other).  Upon initial installation with "linux expert" at the install CD 
boot prompt, all of these USB devices are recognized and seem to be 
setup properly.  At the first boot, I see an icon on the desktop for the 
USB drive and it's mounted as /media/usbdrive (or something close to 
that).  On subsequent boots of the machine, when I go into FC3 it seems 
that the keyboard, mouse and USB drive are no longer recognized.  It 
brings up kudzu during the boot process as if new hardware has been 
added.  It seems like everything is properly setup at install and 
remains so on the first boot, but the settings are somehow lost after 
that.  I imagine there is some configuration file that can be altered so 
that the USB devices are persistently setup properly, but I don't know 
what file that would be or how to change the configuration.

Thanks for you time and advice,

Chuck