Lion freezes after upgrading to SSD

Hi all,
I just purchased the Mac Mini with a 2.7 GHz Core i7 processor and independent graphics processor. The Mini came with a 750GB hard drive. I purchased separately a 120GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD, and I installed it as a second drive (using the installation kit from ifixit). I then installed Lion (10.7.2) on the SSD, and made the HD the location for my home directory.
Lion now freezes all the time. I'll be using one app (say, Safari) when suddenly I'll get the pinwheel of death. I find I can switch to another app, but then that will freeze too. After that, I can't do anything; nothing will respond. Eventually, the entire screen turns white. After that, all I can do is a hard reboot by holding down the power button. At first I thought it was Safari, since it seemed to happen most often when having that open. After switching to Firefox (my preferred browser anyway), the problem didn't apper for awhile. But since then, the same thing has happened while using other programs, such as Mail, and it has now happened with Firefox too. The freezing happens randomly: sometimes I've gone several hours without it happening; others, it's happened within a few minutes. It seems to happen when multiple programs are trying to read or write to the drive.
I think it might be related to the SSD based on googling around for similar issues. I installed the SSD the day I got the mini, so I'm not sure if it would have happened on the HD also. (I only booted to the HD a couple of times, to make sure it worked, and did not stay logged in very long.) As bad luck would have it, I started getting the freezing issues just after I had deleted the installation of Lion on the HD, so I can't switch to it to verify that it is the SSD.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who has an OWC SSD has experienced similar problems, and if there was anything they were able to do to fix it. Is this a problem with Lion? Would downgrading to 10.6 help (if that's even possible)? I know there have been similar problems with other SSDs, but I thought the OWC Mecury Pros were top of the line.

I got my drive from OWC (6G SSD) on the 20th, so pretty much the same time as you. The machine will hang randomly, usually around 45mins-90mins after a reboot. Seems like we are having the same issue. The solution given to me by OWC was to install the new firmware (http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/OWC/SSD). Apparently a new version came out right after we ordered it.
My specs are:
Early 2011 15" MBP w/8GB RAM
Using the Data Doubler from OWC as well, which now houses my old HD (750GB)
Just so you don't waste the time I've already lost, I've tried the following:
Clean install of lion and the using migration assistant
Time Capsule restore
Disabled Sudden Motion Sensor
Disabled hibernation mode
Cleaned my cache using Onyx
I'm going to give the new firmware a shot, and will update here if there are any improvements.
At this point, if the firmware doesn't work, I wonder if there has been a bad batch of SSD drives at the point where we got ours.

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