Mac Pro Boot Problems

Hi,
I think I've got a failing drive, but I'm not sure it's not something else and could use some advice. Nothing has changed on my computer/configuration, but suddenly I'm having a problem booting: I can only get to the gray screen (no Apple logo). Booting up while using the "Option-Command-P-R" to reset PRAM allows me to boot normally... but by the next time I need to boot, it's back to the problem.
I have 3 Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB drives in the computer like this:
Bay 1: Boot Drive (single partition, 1TB)
Bay 2: Time Machine backup drive (single partition, 1 TB)
Bay 3: Internal Backup & Important files (two partitions, 500GB each... Internal Backup created using SuperDuper!)
If I run SuperDuper and update the Internal Backup partition, then set the Startup Drive to be the Internal Backup partition, the computer boots repeatedly without trouble (I've run this way for several days in a row without any bootup trouble).
Yesterday I erased the drive in Bay 1 (using the Zeroing option to identify bad sectors) and it showed about 600MB in use (bad sectors?). I restored it (using SuperDuper) from the Internal Backup... and everything seemed great (much faster, etc.). Until this morning... when, once again, the computer wouldn't boot from Drive 1 without resetting the PRAM.
The 8GB RAM in the computer is after-market (OWC brand) memory, but doesn't appear to be causing any other trouble (application errors, or anything like that).
Sounds like a dying drive, right? Or is there something else I should be testing?
Thanks!

Just as an update... I have now run the Apple Hardware Test (twice) and I bought TechTool Pro 5 and ran all of the viable tests on the drive. Nothing was found.
Still... the Samsung drive in Bay 1 won't reliably boot. Sometimes it will. Other times, it's just a gray screen (no Apple logo, no spinning progress indicator).
Hmmmmm....

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