What on earth is the deal with my MBP?

My MacBook Pro has been showing weird and kind of major problems ever since I exchanged the internal Hitachi hard drive for an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G. Sometimes, not too often, when I boot it doesn't detect the SSD. I get either a screen like this or, if I option-boot (because I have two OS X installs on it), a screen like this. Once I booted from an external drive when this was happening and I checked Disk Utility which didn't list the SSD in the sidebar at all. Just rebooting once or twice has fixed this problem for me so far. But I find it very strange that it happens from time to time, and seemingly very randomly. I am sure I attached the SATA connector to the SSD correctly when I installed the SSD, and it's only ever at boot time that it doesn't get detected sometimes, so it can't be like a loose contact. In addition, the last time the problem fixed itself I didn't physically move the machine in any way between rebooting, and I often carry this MacBook Pro around without any problems while it's running.
Except... a new problem arose today and my gut feeling is that it was caused by whatever is causing the SSD to not be detected at boot sometimes. I booted from my Lion partition and left the computer for a minute. When I came back I heard the fans spinning a lot faster than they should have been – but there was literally nothing running, just a clean desktop with a default wallpaper! What's more is when I checked the temperature of the enclosure with my hands it felt way too cool for the fans to be this loud. The cursor was beachballin' endlessly and the screen was completely frozen (not even the clock worked).
The last thing that I've noticed is that sometimes it takes a really long time to shut down (like >15 seconds), and it's not because of any updates. This being an SSD I expect it should be able to shut down very quickly and do so consistently, especially given that this is a fresh OS X install with barely any of the capacity being used.
There is one thing I have to mention which may be the cause of these problems, although I find it unlikely. One of the partitions on the SSD has OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed which I regularly use, but this model of MacBook Pro (Late 2011) does not officially support running Snow Leopard on it. I haven't noticed any issues with it so far aside from a minor graphics problem (Amnesia: The Dark Descent wont run in fullscreen) that isn't confirmed. It shouldn't be a surprise because the hardware is nearly identical to the Early 2011 models which originally shipped with Snow Leopard.
Any insights or advice is appreciated.

I think the issue is your partition.
Why don't you, if you have time to kill, is to make your first partition Lion and your second partition Snow Leopard.
Make Lion your primary since that's what came with your Macbook originally.
While it's true that Snow Leopard was the default OS on the early 2011, Lion however was the default for the late 2011 which was optimized for you Macbook.
Again, that's only a theory/suggestion. I could be wrong.

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