Problems after installing SSD in 2009 MBP

I'm using a 256gb OCZ Octane SSD and decided to dual HDD. Im using OSX Moutain Lion with 8gigs of RAM. After I installed the SSD I came upon problems. My mbp freezes on start up: it has the apple and the spinning loading icon and stays like that for a couple minutes before restarting itself and just staying a grey screen. It boots in safe mode and by chance boots if I manually tell it to boot from the SSD. How do I get my mbp to boot from the SSD with the expected speed of the SSD?
Also, with the 2nd internal HDD how do I find my files that I'd like to keep on it? The HDD doesnt show up in the finder as an accessible volume although it does appear when I open disk utility. My goal is to have boot up, apps, and games on the SSD but music, movies, files, etc on the HDD.
I have the SSD located in the original HDD spot and the HDD in the optibay. Are those fine locations for my model (5,2)? I read somewhere else online that early models like mine should put the SSD in the optibay and keep the HDD where it is.
Please help!
I did do a clean install osx mountain lion but migrated users and apps. would a clean install of everything work better?

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