P965 Platinum 4 Disk Raid Array, whats my best approach?

Hi everyone, I hope some kind knowledgable person can help me sort through my dilemma.
I have read so many other post that have similar topics my head is in a spin.
I've had similar problems to most other people when installing windows with raid I get the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
At the minute my 4 hard disks are only set up as individual IDE drives, even though they are SATA2.
Correct me if I'm wrong, the motherboard has 6 purple SATA connectors (Intel) and 1 Blue connector (Jmicron). I have put my 4 drives all on the first 4 of the 6 purple inlet connectors (1-4) Or should the go on the last 4 or does it matter. The reason why I ask this is because in windows device manager under the IDE ATA/ATAPI CONTROLLERS the following appears
Intel(R) ICH8 2 Port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825
Intel(R) ICH8 4 Port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2820
Why a 2 port and a 4 port? Am I putting 2 drives on the 2 port and 2 on the 4 port? And which connectors relate to which storage controller. Or does it really matter?
I am not using the BLUE (Jmicron) SATA connector but I am using the Yellow ATA 133 connector for DVD writers (I know I can only put 2 on here and not all three that I have)
Now is this next bit right. In the BIOS in integrated peripherals (I think) the on board SATA should be set to IDE for me to put my DVD writers on?
The next bit confuses me, In the BIOS section for ON CHIP SATA there is a sub-menu, set SATA#1 AS, and Set SATA#2 as.
Why the 2 options. Is this to do with above mentioned 2 controllers in device manager and what are the best settings I should use for a 4 disk RAID 0.
Now this might all look like I know what I'm talking about, but if you are kind enough to reply, please don't make it too technical for me, keep it simple please.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Rebuts

Thanks for the reply Maesus,
I managed to get the 4 disk RAID set up OK.
The other problem I seem to have now is that when I insert a disc into my DVD drive it causes the system to go a bit slow, the mouse would stutter on the screen when I try moving it and would sometimes not move until the disc had stopped spinning. I have two DVD writes attached to the 40 pin IDE connector on the motherboard. This connector is controlled by the JMICRON chip. In the BIOS I have it set up to act as IDE and not RAID. I had initially just let windows pick up on this device and it installed it's own drivers, but I remember someone on another post saying that if you install the JMICRON RAID drivers from the motherboard driver disc it might make thing better. but it hasn't.
Any suggestions?

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