hdd prep for vid editing station

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Looking for some suggestions from experienced people as to how to best
setup my Hard Drives on a video editing station.

Software consists of Adobe:
photoshop
audition
EncoreDVD
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Edius-2.5
Other assorted image handling/authoring tools.

When this stuff gets installed and when used, lots of stuff ends up in
Program Files and lots of stuff under Documents and Settings/THIS_USER

I've caught comments about setting up ones hard drives so that the
bulk of stuff ends up on an IDE disk. While most editing tools are
made to default to a different disk for work.

I have 2 200Gb sata drives and 1 IDE 250gb (7200)

All are hooked up to an Asus K8V mobo. So far I've avoided raid
setups for two reasons... I've heard raid is not really a good thing
when video editing but also I have no experience with it.

I wondered if a few of you with some experience using an editing
station could paint me a picture of good ways to set this up.

To summarize:
I have partition tools to hand (Partition Magic 8) and Ghost 9.
and as stated:
1 IDE 250gb
2 sata 200gb

I'm thinking of partitioning the IDE drive like this:
prt1 prt2
[winxp] [Storage and backups]
25Gb 225Gb

Backups are done by bkup of a partion with ghost into disk image
files. I do it every 3days or so. But keep only 2 images. So I
always have 1 older than three days but less than 6 and one less than
3 days old.

Everything is NTFS.

And finally not partioning the sata drives at all so Sata1 and Sata2
would hold all working files and scratch areas for editing.

Plus the piles of still images and hefty little snippets of clips. In
short all the massive amounts of data that accumlate and need to be
kept for a time.

I'm wondering if it would make sense to install a good bit of the
software onto IDEprt2 instead of all in C:\Program Files.

Before I started triming down and reorganizing, Program Files was 8+ Gb
by itself. And Documents and Settings was 6Gb by itself. I'm
wondering if I could/should put some of that weight on prt2.

Seems like quite a lot of data is just setting under Documents and
Settings. Like extracted files from installs and such.