What's the best way to start over?

Hi everyone,
I bought a new internal HDD to replace my main drive that is failing. Other post of mine detail where I have been with issues but anyway...
Here is my current HDD set up:
Bay #1: The failing WD 1 TB Green (10.5.5) which is going back for a refund.
Bay #2: Newly bought/installed WD 1 TB caviar black.
Bay #3: Back up WD 1TB Green (10.4.10) that serves as a back up but I am using it to perform the formating at the moment since the other HDDs are unreliable.
Bay #4: Original WD 250 GB (10.5.5) that came with the MacPro but strated showing signs of failure.
As soon as I started up the Mac I got a message asking what I wanted to do with the newly installed HDD in Bay #2. I obviously pressed Initialize and Disk Utility openned up.
I chose the Option to name and to zero out the drive 1st with a 1 pass zero out. I am wondering though, would it have been better to Verify and Repair the new Disk 1st before zeroing it out with Disk Utility?
Rio

Hi hatter,
Ok. So I slept on it...Sometimes a rest, a fresh point of view or a renewal of patience can help not to give up...
Here is what I did this morning:
1) Tried booting from last night's Cloned main drive again but OS X 10.5.5 still won't boot from the new WD 1 TB Caviar Black (10.5.5) - Endless swirling wheel and aternating blue and light blue screen.
2) I did a cold shut down again.
3) I did a little swich in the drive bays:
Bay# 1: WD 1 TB Black Caviar (10.5.5 - not booting)
Bay# 2: WD 500 GB Caviar SE16 (10.4.10 - partitionned in 1/2 to hold Windows XP on the 2nd partition).
Bay# 3: WD 1 TB Green (10.4.10 - backup boot drive)
Bay# 4: WD 250 GB Caviar (10.5.5 - original drive that came with the MacPro but started the hole failing issues and was the main drive with all apps and files)
4) I booted into Windows XP and used WD Lifeguard Diagnostics Utility and it reported that all drives are OK. But they're not !!! Argh !
5) For the heck of it, I tried booting into the original failing WD 250 GB Caviar (10.5.5) that holds all original apps and folders, and I got in...*** !!!
6) I booted back into the WD 1 TB Green back up drive (10.4.10) and decided to try and SuperDuper the original failing 250 GB drive to clone it onto the WD 1 TB Caviar Black and erasing the previous trial. It took about 1 1/2 hour.
7) I booted into the Black drive again and I finally got in!!! Can I trust this?
Rio

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