After OS & App SW install, hard drive disappears - HELP!

I'll preface this by saying that this is likely a user problem, but nonetheless it's a problem.  I have a new K8MM motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU.  512MB PC3200 DDR, 200GB IDE drive, DVD-R/W that I got my son for Christmas.  We wanted to build it ourselves (!).  I'm using an Antec Aria case.  No problem in any of the physical assembly.
My problems begin after installing WinXP and various drivers and applications SW.  At some point that is difficult to pinpoint, but certainly after my driver install, my system begins to rapidly decline as defined by on-going software installations not finishing properly (first symptom).  For a while Windows continues to boot properly, but at some point it will no longer boot.  When I go into the BIOS settings all appears to be in order - the peripherals all appear to be recognized, including the hard drive, which still shows up as 200GB IDE.  Rebooting attemts at this point go into an infinite loop of booting BIOS, then a screen telling me that Windows didn't boot properly with some options.  Regardless of what option I choose, the result is a total reboot of the BIOS, then back to this "Windows didn't boot properly" screen again.
If I reformat the hard drive and start over again from a fresh OS install, than again no problem.  Everything seems to install properly until the system again begins to degrade and nothing works again.  Thinking this might be a drive problem I replaced my original SATA drive with an IDE drive and got identical results.  
I have a question I wanted to ask the experts on this forum.  That is, my K8MM motherboard came with a Drivers and Utilities CD.  I "assumed" that I needed to install the drivers from the CD after Windows was installed (even though everything seemed to be working properly at the time - hey, why otherwise would the driver CD be there?).  When I reviewed the manual again this evening, I noticed that it never specifically told me to install any of the drivers on the CD.  Could it be that I shouldn't have installed the drivers, and that is the cause of my problem?  Perhaps this driver install conflicts with the drivers that Windows XP SP2 installed?
Thanks in advance for any guidance!

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