ARC boot path question SATA vs IDE boot order

One question about the ARC Path Naming Conventions :
I have a SATA and just added a temporary bootable IDE drive (old drive that I used here prior to sata purchase). I see that in the boot.ini of each drive that the path is the same - it depends on the order that I setup the ASUS ( phoenix) BIOS which boots first. So if I set SATA first, then I get ITS boot menu - and it works fine. If I make the IDE drive first in BIOS boot order, I get the IDE boot menu.
With both in there, other than changing BIOS , any way to specify which drive to boot ?? I would THINK that they'd be a variable to set path of IDE channel 0 or 1 and/or SATA channel 0 or 1 ? I'd like to leave them both in for now to use old XP partitions for Vista x32 and x64 installs, but don't want to have to toggle BIOS. ( yes I would reformat old partitions)

Old IDE drive:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /fastdetect

New SATA Drive
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Old XP Pro on E:" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN


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