Finder-Sidebar-Items disappear (spontaneously)

High!
Of course me searched a lot but apparently this seems rather unusual. Good for you.
Thing is: the items in my sidebar (finder-window-sidebar) disappear at almost every startup - plus, sometimes spontaneously.* Wicked.
All those vanishing folders are from my second internal disc.
I :
- cleared ALL caches (multiple times)
- trashed the sidebar.plist plus the finder.plist (mulitple times)
- executed pretty much all remaining troubleshooting routines known to mackind
I'm running 10.4.6 but this actually started to happen as soon as switchin' to tiger.
At that time (in January) I did a model-clean-install - so I don't really believe in startin' from scratch.
Also, everything (else) just works beautifulliest. Finder-wise and beyond.
As a matter of course I ain't got no fancy Finder-Extensions/Modifications installed.
Naturally I love you, but if you could help me to solve this issue I would idolize you over and above.
Thank you for your time.
Vibes
Werner
(* All is fine, I copy stuff and such, then I switch to Photoshop, InDesign or whatever and in the Open-Dialogue: they're gone... This only happens on the Quad)
Quad (6.5 GB), iMac G5 (1.5 GB) Mac OS X (10.4.6) Quad: AP, BT, 7800GT, 30" ACD, int. Raptor+Hitachi, ext. 2x500GB FW800, iSight

Hi there!
One week in the life of a corkscrew...
So I performed all the tasks mentioned in my last post.*
Then installed the 10.4.7 Combo Update.
Sadly, same ol' situation.
But:
Like mentioned in my first post, the disappearing sidebar-folders are from my second internal disk.
Now somethin' attracted my attention; I don't know how this could have slipped my perception. Whenever I repair permissions on THIS harddisk it, of course, gets ejected first**. That's when the folders get lost. They vanish and don't come back. As far as I can remember with Panther the sidebar-items stayed there - even if a disk wasn't mounted. (No icon after reboot, but still a plain folder...) Also that's the reason why folders from the system-disk remain - it never gets ejected.
Neither an alias nor a symbolic-link helps to keep them in the sidebar.
I totally reproduced this on my iMac. So obviously it's a tiger bug, isn't it? Could you please confirm before I write Apple; since it's strange there's nothin' on the internets about this.
Perhaps there's some kind of workaround/solution?!
Me wonder...
Peaceout, thanks -
Werner
* Macjack, I used the cache cleansing and maintenance commands provided by MainMenu
** And this (the ejection) apparently (and on my setup) happens not only when repairing permissions but from time to time... and MAYBE since my second disk is in "Slot A" it SEEMS unpredictable ('cause sometimes it's mounted first and all...) Maybe.
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