Chris,
Thanks for taking time out to respond.  I appreciate your effort on my behalf.  
Sorry if I seem ungrateful, but I don't understand how half of the apps are 
coded and so don't understand the limitations imposed by the linux file system 
security.  But in answer to the other questions ....

- You can chmod the folder in the mount directory so that only that user has 
access to it can't you ?  wouldn't that be the solution ?
- even as a limited rights user I can create a folder in the /media folder, 
doesn't Nautilus run in my security context ?

- why is it a hidden folder ?  where should I look for documentation on
this in future ?  I had no idea it used fuse, I did think about using
grep to try and find the folder where it had jury rigged the link, but
gave up

- in response to your newbie statement.  I am a newbie.  I started using
the gui and found very quickly that 95% of the useful apps are command
line.  I wanted to use fdupes to find duplicate files in my software to
free up some space and didn't want to edit fstab and stuff.  I think any
newbie who is going to make the transition from a windows machine to a
linux distribution needs to understand how these things work, and there
is no (as far as I know) any man page about Nautilus fuse integration.

Thanks for your help, I'm happily using the ~\.gvfs folder, I just think
it would have been easier to implement it in a more logical manner so
that the next 50 people after me that ask the same question .....didn't
have to.

ps, thanks again :-)

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when I map a drive in nautilus it does not create a folder in /media so I 
cannot use command line toos with the mapping
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491075
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