Gnome desktop icons

[Andrew Robinson <awrobinson cox net>]

Gnone has put icons on my desktop for various mounted partitions. I 
would like to remove these icons, but have not figured out how. The 
right-click preferences seems to want to unmount the partitions, which 
is NOT what I want. I can't find any tool from the Gnome button that 
seems to reference desktop icons. I've poked around the dot files in my 
home directory but haven't found anything concrete. How do I control 
what Gnome puts on my desktop?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson