using NTFS for my external hard drive

I bought a 250GB external hard drive. Since sometimes I need to plug it into Windows PCs, I decided it is best to have it formatted as NTFS. I installed ntfs drivers (yum install ntfs-3g), and voilá, when I plugged it into the USB port, a nice folder appeared on my Gnome desktop, and everything was accessible.

Except for it is all read-only.

Damn. Now I need to figure out who is to blame: ntfs-3g, fuse, or gnome-mount.

Update, the fix is a one-liner:
gconftool-2 -s /schemas/system/storage/default_options/ntfs/mount_options -t string '[uid=]'