How can I get 10.8 to recognize my home folder that was moved to another drive?

I installed an SSD in my MacBook Pro a while back and replaced the optical drive with a regular SATA hard drive and moved my user folder to the larger drive. Unfortunately, Moutain Lion didn't like that, I can no longer log in to my account (I am assuming the relocated user folder is the problem, perhaps it is not?). Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Are you able to log into the machine with a different account (like an administrator account)? If so, open Directory Utility (/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app) and go to the "Directory Editor" tab, and select your user in the list on the left (the one that you moved to the second drive). What is the value for "NFSHomeDirectory" for that user?  The upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion could have reset this value (since having home directories on drives other than the boot drive (I think) isn't supported). Have you tried reapplying the procedure you used to move your home folder to the secondary drive prior to the upgrade?

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