One of my Internal Drives refuses to Boot up

Greetings all,
I have 3 internal Hard Drives in my G4.
1.) The original 30GIG for emergency start up
2.) 160Gig For storage
3.) 250GIG as my prefered start up disk with apps and most work files ... This one is backed up on an external Fire Wire.
The 250GIG stopped booting... after a hard restart (due to a freeze), it would restart from the 30GIG. I've zapped the PR, also replace the battery (long overdue)
I can restart from the Back-up FW, but everytime a choose the 250 Internal, it restarts with the little 30 GIG Drive instead.
I've been able to start up from the 250G in the past, although I did have this issue before, which I had to jump thru hoops to get the 250G back to booting.
Here's my info on the 250GIG if that helps you help me.
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Manufacturer: ATA
Model: HDT722525DLAT80
Revision:
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk3
OS9 Drivers: No
SCSI Target Identifier: 2
SCSI Logical Unit Identifier: 0
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
250GIG:
Capacity: 232.76 GB
Available: 52.18 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk3s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/250GIG
Thanks in advance for any help.
PPC G4 Dual 450 Gigabit Ethernet upgraded to Dual 1.3 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 9200 Radion, Controller Card to hold Hard Drives,HP LaserJe Networked G3 Desktop
PPC G4 Dual 450 Gigabit Ethernet upgraded to Dual 1.3 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 9200 Radion, Controller Card to hold Hard Drives,HP LaserJe Networked G3 Desktop

When you depress/hold the Option key at startup to
initiate the Startup Manager, does the problem drive
appear in the window?
Does the problem drive appear in the System
Profiler?
If you don't have DiskWarrior, startup from one of
the other drives & run Disk Utility. However, it may
take DiskWarrior to fix the problem.
 Cheers, Tom
Thanks to both above...
So far Disk Warrior didn't fix the prob.
Yes, I do see the drive in my prefs and I can select it as a Start Up drive, but it keeps deciding to start up from the original drive.
So far, I ran Disk Utilities and Disk Warrior... apparently there were issues, but they were resolved as far as I can tell in both Utility progs. Still, I can't restart from this drive. I can start up from it's back-up FW drive, but I don't really want to do that.
Thanks for any help you can give
PPC G4 Dual 450 Gigabit Ethernet upgraded to Dual 1.3 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 9200 Radion, Controller Card to hold Hard Drives,HP LaserJe Networked G3 Desktop
PPC G4 Dual 450 Gigabit Ethernet upgraded to Dual 1.3 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 9200 Radion, Controller Card to hold Hard Drives,HP LaserJe Networked G3 Desktop

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