usb_set_configuration: Operation not permitted

[Richard Crawford]

I just upgraded to Dapper from Breezy today, and now I am having problems 
hooking up my Creative Zen Nomad.  Under Breezy I was able to install and run 
KZen Explorer just fine (though I had to do it from source, since it would 
never install for me through Adept); however, when I try to run KZenExplorer 
now under Dapper, I get the following error message:

usb_set_configuration: Operation not permitted

I've seen on various forums that I can get around this by running kzenexplorer 
as root, but I don't want to have to do that.  I've also seen that I can copy 
some nomad configuration files into the /etc/hotplug directory, but there is 
no such directory under Dapper.

Other USB devices, such as my mouse and my Palm Pilot, work just fine under 
Dapper.

How can I resolve this problem?  I need my podcasts!

-- 
Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com)
"That which does not kill me makes me stranger."
    -Llewellyn, from Ozy & Millie