I also found that the replacement cable still gave me the errors. For some reason the way that the cable lays flat over the drives seems to affect it. I don't know whether this is physical or a possible emi problem, but I played with the creases in the cable so that the cable is kinda wedged against the display board and I haven't seen the problem since.

/me goes to touch every piece of wood in sight.
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Mk2a 60GB Blue. Serial 030102962 sig.mp3: File Format not Valid.