Disk works, but doesn't show in Finder?

I have a fully functioning disk in my PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5GHz machine, yet it doesn't always show up in the Finder. I cannot add it to the Sidebar, and yet mostly it shows in the list when I select my computer's icon. It is shaded, however, not solid like the other disk's icon. This is the second internal drive, a relatively new drive which apart from this anomaly has caused no problems. Disk Utility sees it fine, and a Repair Disk finds nothing.
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
I have had some sporadic permissions problems here and there since I installed Leopard. Something went a little awry during the install, and even after a complete reinstall, I still had to restore certain data from backups, so one possibility might be some incorrect permissions somewhere. Repair Permissions on the bootup drive doesn't find anything though.
I have 10.5.4 installed (this option isn't in the dropdown for OS).
Message was edited by: Carsten Whimster
Message was edited by: Carsten Whimster

It turns out that I misread the manpage. The '@' after the permissions doesn't mean soft link, but rather extended attributes. Using 'ls -lO' I could see that a "hidden" extended attribute had been added, which I was then able to remove by logging in as administrator, and typing 'sudo chflags nohidden Data', in the specific case of my Data drive.
Here is more info:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1324110&tstart=1078

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