MacBook Pro: BC/XP works fine until I remove my optical drive

I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro, and have replaced the internal drive with an OCZ Vertex 3. The good news is, after I made an impromptu RF shield around the cable and the drive itself out of aluminum foil, it works flawlessly at the full 3 gbps. And, after I spent literally 20 hours trying to figure out how to get it restored, I have finally restored my boot camp (XP SP3) partition to the Vertex 3 and it works flawlessly also. **** fast, too.
Everything's great, then, right? Well... not quite. I still would like to take my optical drive out of the computer and put my original hard drive in. However, as soon as I take my optical drive out (leaving the hard drive out of the equation entirely for now), XP stops booting, and just shows a black screen. I assume this is because device order is somehow screwed up; however, the boot.ini file says that I should be booting off of device 0, and I can't imagine the internal hard drive being anything other than device 0.
Please help. I feel like I'm so **** close to making this work.
(Oh, by the way: I suspect, from certain experiments that I did during those long 20 hours, that this same thing would happen if I installed this on the internal hard drive, too. So I don't think this is Vertex- or SSD-specific... just something that happens if you remove the optical drive from a XP Boot Camp installation on a MacBook Pro.)

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Thank you for your reply, and the information. This is what I came up with:
I added the strings as instructed, however when I went to sign the script in terminal, I was told:
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: replacing existing signature
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: code object is not signed at all
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