Extremely slow accessing folders in explorer (like 1 or 2 minutes) on SATA drive

OK, where to start ... About a year ago I bought this motherboard.  I have one 80 GB WD IDE and one SATA WD 160 GB drive on the integrated Promise controller.  I loaded the Promise driver that came with the motherboard and everything was working, no problems accessing either drive.  I noticed that that there was a newer driver for the Promise controller so I downloaded it and installed it.  After that, whenever I tried to expand folders in explorer on the SATA drive, it would sit there from anywhere from 1 to 2 minutes before showing the folders underneath it.  So I reverted back to the old driver and everything worked normal again.
This past weekend I decided to wipe my machine before applying Windows SP2.  So I formatted the 80 GB WD IDE drive (I didn't touch the SATA drive, I use that primarily for data storage).  I installed Win XP Pro with an integrated SP2.  After installing I couldn't see the SATA drive because the driver hadn't been loaded yet.  So I went to MSI's site and downloaded the Promise driver and installed it and rebooted.  I could see the drive but the same access problem occured.  It either takes a minute or two to browse the folders on the drive or sometimes it just hangs when trying to access folders.  I found my old Promise driver disk that came with the mobo originally but after installing that I still had the same problem.  I then re-installed again but this time I used the F6 to load the Promise driver (from the disk that came with the motherboard) during the windows installation.  I still had the same problem.
I searched the forums here but the hits I get are people complaining that their SATA drives aren't performing as fast as their IDE's etc.  On the net I did find one guy who has the exact same problem as I do but he didn't have a solution to the problem and no one posted a possible solution to his problem.  Anyone have any ideas or have experienced a similar issue?
P.S. - I'm not overclocking my PC and I have the latest BIOS revision.

I've had this exact problem from time to time too, and am having it again after a fresh install of WinXP (updated to SP2).
I find it occurs when I boot up with a DVD data disc in my Memorex DVD writer. Seems to have some thing to do with the Drag-to-Disc software interacting oddly with the OS. This software is part of the Roxio package for managing DVD writers, and comes with the memorex writer.
If I make sure I don't have a disc in the drive, then everything's fine. If I do have one, and simply wait long enough for something to time out in the boot process before logging in and starting to do anything, the problem doesn't appear either. It only shows up if I reboot with a DVD-ROM in the drive (Actually, to be absolutely accurate what was in the drive was a DVD+RW that I had written ordinary files to), log in as soon as I get the login screen, then try and open an explorer window.
If I boot with the drive empty, or go away for ten minutes or so during boot and come back and log in, no problem.
I've got two removable drives in my system, one a DVD writer, the other a straight DVD reader. Both on secondary IDE channel, writer is master, reader is slave. System disc is a 120GB seagate on the ICH5R SATA-2 channel, Promise is configured with a RAID 0+1 array of 4 200GB WD discs (two SATA, two ATA/100 on IDE 3).
Try pulling your CDROM IDE cable so that there is no CD drive in the system, reboot, and see if the problem goes away. You might be having some sort of interference from the secondary IDE channel, or some driver that talks to the CDROM or DVD drive(s) causing problems like I have been.
Good luck, and let us know what results you get from trying this experiment.

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