[NTLUG:Discuss] Permissions to CDROM and Printer Issue

[Allen]

Being a newbie, I am a lurker both on the forum and in the monthly meetings.  
But I have two issues that I'm hoping to get some help on.

First, recently I've decided to start playing with mp3's.  I am converting my 
CD collection to that format.  The issue is this: when I try to run Grip (or 
any other similar program) I get "Unable to open the cd device. Please make 
sure that you are using the correct device (passed to the program with "-d") 
and that you have permission to access the device."  Other programs just say 
"Permission Denied".  It doesn't happen when I run the program as root.  
Where do I change the permissions?

Second, I find myself often needing to reload CUPS so I can print. 

I am running Mandrake 7.2 on a AMD K6-2 400 with 128meg.

I really appreciate all the help I can get as I want to find fewer and fewer 
reasons to keep my WIN98 partition.  One day, I would like to only run 
windows in a VMWARE session....

Thanks in advance,

Allen Lash