Automount nirvana?

I'm still having issues with mounting of storage devices automatically in Gentoo Linux. This was really easy in Ubuntu Linux.

Each distribution has things that I like about it. Ubuntu worked very well for many things, but there were some glaring deficiencies that forced me over to Gentoo for my main office workstation. Cheif among them was video encoding and editing package support. I need to deal with a lot of wierd video formats throughout my day, and Ubuntu for licensing reasons does not have support for many popular codecs. Gentoo is great for that, with a wealth of command line tools and codec packages that make my life much easier.

But when I just need to do some basic stuff like use a scanner, or automount a USB flash key or camera SD card, I have to drop into root and create a temporary mount point in Gentoo, copy the files to my home directory, chown them to my user account, then unmount the device. It's a major hastle, and takes away all the benifits of nautilus file browsing. I know that work continues on automounting support in Gentoo, but I have yet to find a cohesive guide on how to get it working like the Ubuntu system.