Solaris 10 (sparc) disk utilities problems

I'm running Solaris 10 (1/06) on an E450 with 1.5G RAM, 4 300Mhz US-2's. And am having a devil of a time partioning my unmounted spare drives that I'm trying to use to set up Raid 1 and Raid 5. I am logged on as the root user. This is a system I just rebuilt this weekend. I had the same problems with it in the previous build S10 (3/05). I can partition the drives any way I wish during the build process. It's just once I have the server built I can't figure it out.
The drives are a mix of:
Seagate ST336704LC <SUN36G>
Seagate ST336605LC <SUN36G>
I have tried using SMC with the following results: If I try to partition the disks (4 or 7 partitions) the drive manager will let me do 2 or 4 of the partitions then simply cease to proceed when the NEXT button is pushed. Also using the SMC if I right click, then do properties on a partition SMC will hang, also if I doubleclick on any partition, mounted or unmounted.
Using the terminal commands Format, Partition, Modify I can change the size of partitions but this does not allow me to Tag the partitions. I can not configure partitions any other way. If I try to modify the partitions using format-partition-"part#" then save infomation, it will be lost when I exit the terminal session.
Any guidance on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
Dave

Found it... was not doing 'label' after making my changes. All better and root mirroring has been successful.
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