the problem was with the jmicron, but not a booting issue. I believe (as kruzn explained it to me) that the Jmicron controller on the motherboard was interfering with the Indilux controller in the SSD's.
The other issue could have been due to the "warm" copy of Vista x64 I was trying to install. I was holding off buying it because I'm not a huge fan of vista. I'd rather wait until the release of windows 7 64 bit...but as kruzn pointed out to me "why dont you just download the release candidate...its free". Damn did I feel like an idiot after that!
so anyways, long story short, I"m now up and running (thanks again Kruzn)
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