Windows XP and ICH5R SATA RAID 0

Ok, I have searched and not found any answer so I need to ask a question.  I have a new system that I believe I set up with 2 Maxtor 120 Gb drives in RAID 0, but they don't seem to be doing what a RAID 0 grouping should.
The drives are on the ICH5R and the CTL I BIOS shows them enabled and in RAID 0, the drives did show up and were recognized.  Windows XP Pro shows them as drives that make up 240 Gb Raid grouping in the drive management utility but it shows them graphically as two drives and it has a letter assigned on another line to the second drive.  As far as I can tell they have been set up right but they are being treated as two seperate drives.  Again, to clarify, I see a line for drive D that says it is a RAID grouping of 224 Gb (the 120 shows as 114 available) but there are two boxes on the line both showing as healthy with the second showing as healthy and active.  On another line it shows drive E (the second 120) with 114 Gb available showing as healthy and active.
I thought it was just a graphics/explorer glitch but I have loaded a large group of data to the primary drive of tje grouping and the second drives still shows as having all the space free.  The graphical display (right click on the drive and click properties) shows that space is being used in the first drive but the second drive is empty.  There do seem to be a few files that are on the E (second drive) but they seem to be some sort of configuration files and only take up about 18 Mb while I have put files totalling about 10 Gb on D drive (and they show as taking up that much space but only on D).
Yes, I know that they are Maxtor's and other have had problems with them but mine seem to be working fine (as hard drives being recognized by Neo FIS2R) it just seems I may have done something wrong in Windows.
My question is what have I done wrong (if anything) and how do I fix it?  The BIOS seems to recognize the drives correctly, Windows seems to know about the drives as a RAID array but data is not getting striped.  
Thanks for any help.
P4 2.8Ghz not overclocked
Geil 1 Gb Dual Channel Ultra PC 3200 (400 Mhz) not overclocked
875P Neo2-FIS2R, BIOS version 1.8
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (128Mb) no OC
Antec Truepower 430W (Antec 1080AMG Case)
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2 Maxtor 120 Gb on ICH5R(SATA), RAID 0
Sony DVD Rom (Primary Channel/Slave)
Sony DRU510A Writer (Secondary, Master)
TDK VeloCD CD/RW (Secondary Slave)
WinXP Pro + SP1 + all latest Windows Updates
BIOS - enable USB, 1394 and ACPI.
BIOS setting for RAID under "On Chip IDE Config" is:
Native, SATA Only, SATA enabled=Yes, PATA enabled =Yes,
PATA Channel Selection=Both, Configure ATA as RAID=Yes

I did put in the drivers (from the included floppy) during the windows install and I ran the intel RAID accelerator.  Drive management in Windows seems to recognize that it is a RAID grouping.  I actually had to go back and reload Windows because I did not do that the first time I installed it.  Before it would not recognize the drives at all.
So you two are thinking I need to start all over again and install windows (format the drives)?  I just got everything working and recognized so this is not what I would want to do if there is an alternative.
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Geil 1 Gb Dual Channel Ultra PC 3200 (400 Mhz) not overclocked
875P Neo2-FIS2R, BIOS version 1.8
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (128Mb) no OC
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