Leopard Mac always boots to Tiger grrrr...

I have four hard disks in my Mac Pro. Two of them are system disks. When I updated from Tiger I installed leopard on a new drive so that I could "go back" if I needed to. I used Migration assistant to transfer most stuff from Tiger disk to Leopard. All went well and I've been a happy leopard user for couple of weeks or so.
I still have some stuff on my Tiger drive so I want to keep it available on my desktop.
In sys. prefs. I have set set my leopard drive (called "Macintosh HDL") to be the start up disk. The Tiger drive (called "Macintosh HD") is listed but not selected.
When I switch on my computer it boots into Tiger. When I check SysPrefs Startup Disk the leopard drive is already selected. When I click restart it boots into Leopard.
Indeed when I do a restart from Leopard it restarts to Leopard (I think). Just when I Switch on from proper "off", the computer boots to Tiger.
There are no other apparent problems.
Any ideas how I can sort this out without removing the Tiger drive or deleting the Tiger OS?
Mac pro quad 2.66GHz, 6GB RAM

Ok I've done more testing.
I removed all disk drives except the leopard drive. Computer boots (quickly) into leopard.
I switch off and put the other drives back in and proceed to boot... into Tiger ...grrr.
The tiger drive is in Bay one of my mac pro, leopard is in bay 2. Could this be a clue? Yes...
I put leopard drive into bay 1, tiger into bay 2. My computer now boots into leopard on switch on.
Seems that Start Up sys pref is only working for restarts. From a switched off state the computer boots into the OS on Bay 1 (or perhaps the first OS it sees starting from 1?)
Seems we have to swap disks about in the bays if we want to be able to change our working, day-today OS
Oh well, problem seems solved anyway

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