CD ROM and Floppy icons won't disappear

[Daniel Wood <daniel cs washington edu>]

I'd love to never see another icon on my desktop again.  After I
installed Redhat 7.0, I deleted all of the icons on the desktop.
Unfortunately every time I insert a CD a CD-ROM and a Floppy icon
appear.  My fruitless web searches only pointed me as far as
"magicdev", something that doesn't seem to have a man page.  Clues (on
how to make my computer stop doing random stuff that I don't
understand) gratefully accepted.

Thanks,
D.