The newbie has power!

Just wanted to report back on the smashing success I had last night after all the help I got here yesterday.
The cause of much of my trouble seems to be this: http://store.westerndigital.com/product.asp?sku=2428641
It's a Western Digital Serial ATA Hard Drive Cable with SecureConnect -- it's allegedly a combined data and power cable. Except, when I used it, Win XP kept telling me I didn't have any drives. Maybe it's not something my mobo is ready for?
So, I ditched it and went and found one of the orange SATA cables that came with my mobo and plugged that in for data. Just as I was hooking up the legacy power supply, I realized (*smacks head*) there's this huge orange sticker on the power supply that says, "SATA enabled" or something like that. Anyway, I fished through the billion wires and found the SATA power supply and used that instead of the legacy one.
As expected, my new baby is fabulous (at least for my purposes). And I'm so glad I decided to build my own computer -- nice and clean and free of all the usual crap that gets pre-loaded on them.
Now, the only problem is that the installation CD for my (very old) modem had a crack in it. My DSL company is sending me a (very) new modem, but I won't have it until Monday, so I'm hoping I don't die of impatience over the weekend without an Internet connection!
And I copied down as much info as I could think to gather, so I hope that all shows up in my sig below...

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Originally posted by pugmom
It looks like that WD cable just provides a more stable support for your data and power cables - you cannot draw power from the SATA data cable, so you would still need to plug your SATA power connector into (or through, however it works) that WD thingy for power.
OK, that's what I don't get. This thing plugs into the whole SATA plug -- power section and data section -- and there's no way (that I can see) to add a *real* power cable to, through or around it.
If I remember correctly, this is a new standard that feeds power and signal at once.  The motherboard just doesn't support it.

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