SSD users problems post Mountain Lion upgrade?

HI folks. I've had nothing but major problems with installing and booting since I upgraded my Mac to Mountain Lion. I had no problems with Lion. I do have an SSD installed and I'm wondering if that has something to do with it. Anyone? Thanks.

Hello All...
I just wanted to give you my expeience with my SSD. Im hoping this helps someone out there.
I have a macbookpro5,4 - mid 2009 2.53 GHZ 15" macbook pro running lion. I purchased a 512 SSD from crucial and 2 x 4 GB ram modules.
I installed both and all worked great (I used a time machine backup to restore the SSD), up to the point where I put the computer to sleep either by closing the lid, via the power button, or via the apple menu. When I tried to log in from sleep it would give me the beach ball and it wouldnt go away.
So heres what I did:
1. I put my old hard drive in and everything worked fine but not as fast as ssd
2. I put the SSD back in and the sleep issue came back
3. Upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion (issue still there)
4. I downgraded the firmware to 1.6 (issue still came back)
5. Upgraded firmware back to 1.7 (issue still there)
6. Disabled "put hard drive to sleep when possible) (System Preferences -> Energy Saver) - (issue still there - though i kept this disabled)
7. Disabled "allow bluetooth to wake up this computer" (System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Advanced) - (issue still there) - I renabled it after
8. Saw a post to replace the hard drive cable bracket Apple part: 922-9314 (i purchased on ebay)
9. Found a program called insominaX - enables you to prevent your computer from going to sleep by closing the lid. THIS WORKED for me as a bypass solution but not as a real solution as the computer is still on when i travelled from one location to the next.
I emailed crucial and now i was contemplating wiping out the hard drive and starting from scratch and reinstalling everything.
And the final solution (for me anyways):
10. I Reset the SMC - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964. And everything worked.
I went back to disable the insomniaX and everything still worked. I did a sleep via apple, closing lid, and power button. And still all good.
11. I requested a refund for the hard drive cable bracket. And the seller just refunded for me.
Best of luck to everyone out there...I hope you dont have to spend as much time as myself to solve this issue.

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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11373233/MacDiscussions/Screen%20problems%20post%20Moun tain%20Lion/Screen%20Shot%202012-12-11%20at%2010.39.54.png
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11373233/MacDiscussions/Screen%20problems%20post%20Moun tain%20Lion/Screen%20Shot%202013-01-08%20at%2023.22.49.png
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11373233/MacDiscussions/Screen%20problems%20post%20Moun tain%20Lion/Screen%20Shot%202013-01-07%20at%2017.24.31.png
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Hi Paul.
I did all that and I'm pleased to announce that it appears to have worked!! It's only been half an hour or so since the restart so I'm still cautious but I now get that Triangle in Numbers that I mentioned earlier.
The screen artifacts appear to have gone now. But I will remain sceptical about this until I haven't seen them for at least a week. Well - another couple of hours maybe. LOL!
What appears to have happened this time is that the download was one **** of a bit faster than the first time. My ISP recently upgraded me from 20gbits/s to 60gb/s download. The ML downloader showed 1 hour 36 mins to do the jobs but actually took only about 40 mins. The installer took a further 40 mins.
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