Can someone help me set up "eject" correctly???

I want amarok to disconnect my iPod in the correct way. So that it doesn't give the message "Connected, Eject before disconnecting" before I unplug it.

For predisconnect I use: mount %d
and for post-disconnect: umount %d

But it want to also do eject, so basically "umount %d && eject %d"
Because when eject my iPod as root "sudo eject /media/ipod", the iPod itself also recognizes that it's safe to disconnect. So this already works(!!), but I don't wanna fire up a terminal everytime I want to unplug my iPod.
Unfortunately I cannot do this as normal user. So I thought I'd edit '/etc/sudoers'. I changed it into this (use visudo to edit!!):

[php]# /etc/sudoers
Defaults env_reset

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias IPOD=/usr/bin/eject

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
jaapkroe ALL= NOPASSWD: EJECT
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
[/php]

But it doesn't change anything! When I run eject as user, I get:

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$ eject -v /dev/sdc1
eject: device name is `/dev/sdc1'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/sdc1'
eject: `/dev/sdc1' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/sdc1' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/sdc1' is a multipartition device
eject: unable to open `/dev/sdc1'


And for "eject /media/ipod"

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$eject -v /media/ipod/
eject: device name is `/media/ipod'
eject: expanded name is `/media/ipod'
eject: `/media/ipod' is not mounted
eject: `UUID=1DD6-8990' can be mounted at `/media/ipod'
eject: tried to use `UUID=1DD6-8990' as device name but it is no block device
eject: unable to find or open device for: `/media/ipod'


This UUID relates to my Ipod, because

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$ ls -alF /dev/disk/by-uuid/
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 2008-10-24 16:41 1DD6-8990 -> ../../sdc1
[...]


And here's the iPod from my fstab:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#               
# Ipod
UUID=1DD6-8990 /media/ipod vfat user,noauto,umask=000 0 0


I'm using KDE 4.1.2 and Kernel version 2.6.27-7 on a 64bit Kubuntu install.

Now that I've given you an overkill of information, hopefully someone can help me figure out how to get this working.

It's not an amarok-specific question because it also doesn't work in konsole or whatever terminal.

I think this is a kde-related question, because under Gnome the gnome-eject does work for normal users.

Just guessing but doesn't command alias mean that you should be executing sudo ipod /dev/xxx?

kubuntu intrepid 8.10 here.
I had the same problem but I think I found a good solution.
To make the eject command work as a normal user I googled a bit and discovered that adding the user to the "disk" group was enough:

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sudo useradd -G disk myuser

At this point I was able to use it perfectly in amarok with,
Pre-connect command: mount /media/ipod
Post-disconnect command: eject /media/ipod

And now I can mount and eject the ipod perfectly from amarok.
Hope it helps.