Adding alternate Applications folders on other hard drives?

I just rolled out my new Mac Pro (yay!) -- I have added more hard drives (non-apple) to the system, so they appear as just standard user-owned drives (which I'm not able to figure out).
I have many dense applications that I will be installing -- CS5, Maya, ... and I would like to distribute some of them to another drive.
Is there an elegant way to accomplish this. Some code, like Xcode, cannot be installed on any drive that does not have OS X (understandable) the rest should be able to live in an Applications folder I create.
Open to suggestions!
Thanks...

Forrest wrote:
Regarding the system disk... I notice the stock disk is a Western Digital and it has an Apple Logo on it. The other drives are just standard Seagate 1TB and when I install them, they are shown as owned by me; the Get Info reflects the first drive as System (in the permissions) which is not available to the others and it doesn't matter if I chown to root:admin and change the "ignore" option. Anyway, another topic.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this but it is normal for the current boot volume to show system as owner & other attached volumes to show as owned by whatever account is currently logged in. This is dynamic: if for example you install the OS on a second volume & boot from it, it will then show system as owner.
The OS does this automatically to give each volume the proper permissions. Don't try to change it. At best nothing will change, at worst you will run into permission problems.

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