785G-E53 Randomly disappearing SATA ports and IDE errors

I'm having an issue with various SATA ports on this motherboard "disappearing" or becoming non-functional randomly.  Shortly after I built the system I noticed that one of my SATA optical drives was not showing up in Windows -- moving it to another SATA connector on the motherboard resolved the issue and I chalked it up to a flaky connector and moved on.  Recently my system started hanging for ~ 30 seconds or so every minute or two and the event viewer was filling up with errors about the IDE port my other optical drive was connected to not being available.  I replaced the IDE cable and things returned to normal.  A couple of days ago I noticed once again that the SATA optical drive (in its new connector) had disappeared.  I have not had time to move it to another connector yet, and yesterday while browsing the web my system suddenly hung.  Upon rebooting, my Samsung 1TB SATA drive could not be found during boot-up.  I tried rebooting several times with no luck.  I turned the PC off for the night.  When I came back to it the next day, it found the drive and booted with no problems.  After immediately backing up any recent data, I reviewed the drive's SMART info (pristine) and then moved on to the event viewer again.  Apparently the IDE errors started a few hours prior to the HD's SATA port going AWOL.
There appears to be something flaky with the drive controllers on this motherboard, but I'm unsure how to confirm or troubleshoot this further.  Since the problem occurs at POST and boot-up, it is obviously not a driver or software issue.  I do not believe it to be PSU related -- the system has an OCZ 600W PSU and happily ran with a MSI GTX 560 Ti for months previously.  The 560 is currently out of the system and I'm using the onboard graphics, so the PSU is under even less of a load...
I'm going to be installing a new SSD and finally getting around to installing Win7 on this machine so I would like to resolve any potential motherboard issue first.  I'd appreciate any help you guys can offer.
Here are the system specs:
AMD Phenom II x6 1055T
MSI 785G-E53 motherboard
16GB DDR3 1333 RAM
OCZ Stealthstream 600W PSU with 4x 18A 12V (72A combined)
Samsung Spinpoint 1TB SATA HD
2x Sony/OptiArc optical drives (1 SATA, 1 IDE)

To clarify, when I said POST and boot up, I meant everything prior to the bootloader taking over.  In the case of this particular system, multiple OSes are installed, so I have to select the Windows OS before it even starts to load itself.  The errors are present way before this step ever occurs.
With respect to the drives, it is not always the same drive.  Up until the other day, it was always an optical drive that disappeared.  The missing drive was not detected by (and would not show up in) the BIOS even after rebooting and going into the BIOS to check.  The same occurred with the Samsung HD.
(I do know not installing Windows from scratch is less than ideal but I needed the system back up ASAP and still had some software that was not Win7 friendly at the time.  Fortunately Acronis True Image handled most of the driver updates/replacements during the restore process and the few remaining I did from within Windows upon the first boot.  I highly recommend their product if you ever need bare-metal restore across dissimilar hardware!)
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No way that is 72A combined.
Look at the label and see how many watts the 12V rail can do, then divide 12-rail-watts / 12v = combined amps.
Hmmm... I may have misunderstood the label.  Here's what it says:
Voltage:     +5V     +12V1     +12V2     +12V3     +12V4     +3.3V     -12V     +5Vsb
Max Curr:    30.0A   18.0A     18.0A     18.0A     18.0A     36.0A     0.5A     3.0A
It does not list max watts for just the 12V rail.  Total output for all voltages not to exceed 580W.  When I bought it, the rep said add the 12V outputs together, but if that's not right I definitely need to know!
EDIT: Well, curious about the max amps, I popped over to Newegg and pulled up the legacy product page for this PSU...<sigh> It does not have a very good track record for longevity and, apparently, the 12V rail distribution is practically useless: 2 rails power the 8-pin ATX/EPS connector, 1 rail powers the 2 4-pin PCI-E connectors, and the remaining rail goes everywhere else.  I'm thinking it's a miracle my GTX560 Ti ever ran in this system at all.

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